The six NS-21 crewmembers in their flight suits pose for a crew photo. They are, from left: Victor Vescovo, Victor Correa Hespania, Katya Echazarreta, Jaison Robinson, Hamis Harding, and Evan Dick.
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The NS-21 mission on the launch pad on June 4, 2022.
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Blue Origin's NS-21 crew departs for the launch pad in two electric Riven trucks.
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Blue Origin astronauts drive out to the launch pad for flight on June 4, 2022.
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Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke in Blue Origin mission control wishes the six astronauts of NS-21 good luck on June 4, 2022.
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Blue Origin's NS-21 flight launched on June 4, 2022.
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The capsule and booster of NS-21 on June 4, 2022.
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The booster of the NS-21 mission after touching down on June 4, 2022.
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New Shepard's Blue Origin propulsion module lands back on Earth after launching the NS-21 crew to space on Saturday, June 4, 2022.
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The NS-21 New Shepard capsule approaching Earth on June 4, 2022.
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Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule touches down after the NS-21 mission on Saturday, June 4, 2022.
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The NS-21 crew are back on Earth after exiting Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule on Saturday, June 4, 2022.
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Twenty-six-year-old science communicator Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexican-born woman to reach space, and the youngest American woman to do so. Her seat on NS-21 was sponsored by the nonprofit Space For Humanity; she was the first Space For Humanity "citizen astronaut" to reach the final frontier.
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Civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, 28, became the second Brazilian to reach space. His seat on NS-21 was sponsored by the Crypto Space Agency.
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Jaison Robinson was a finalist on the TV show "Survivor: Samoa" in 2009. He later founded the commercial real estate company JJM Investments and co-founded an investment company called Dream Variations Ventures.
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Victor Vescovo is a cofounder of the private equity firm Insight Equity. He's also an accomplished adventurer who has completed the "Explorer’s Grand Slam," which includes summiting the highest peak on all seven continents and skiing to the North and South Poles.
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Hamish Harding is chairman of Action Aviation, a business-jet brokerage company that he founded in 2004. He's also an adventurer who holds several aviation world records. And in 2021, he dived to the Challenger Deep — the deepest known point on Earth's seafloor — with Victor Vescovo in a two-person submarine.
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Engineer and investor Evan Dick also flew on Blue Origin's NS-19 mission, which launched in December 2021. He became the company's first-ever repeat passenger.
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Hamish Harding, Jaison Robinson and Katya Echazarreta during training for the NS-21 mission.
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Evan Dick holds the patch from his previous Blue Origin mission, NS-19, which launched in December 2021.
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Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-21 crew pose for a photo on the gantry at the company's West Texas Launch Site One. From left to right: Victor Correa Hespanha, Katya Echazarreta, Jaison Robinson, Hamish Harding, Evan Dick and Victor Vescovo.
Blue Origin’s fifth human spaceflight, a mission called NS-21, launched from the company’s West Texas site on June 4, 2022.
On NS-21, Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle carried six people — Katya Echazarreta, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, Victor Vescovo, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick — to suborbital space and back.
The 26-year-old Echazarreta became the first Mexican-born woman, and the youngest American woman, to reach space. Dick became the first-ever repeat New Shepard crewmember; he also flew on the NS-19 mission, which launched in December 2021.
You can read more about all six passengers in our NS-21 crewmembers story. And you can see photos of the spaceflyers and their mission here, in this gallery.