Blue Origin To Launch Six New Tourists On May 31

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Blue Origin's next crew flight is taking off this week. The NS-32 mission is scheduled to launch on May 31 from the company's launch site in West Texas when the launch window opens at 7 pm IST. The live webcast of the mission will begin 30 minutes prior to liftoff on the company's website and X profile.

NS-32 is Blue Origin 's 32nd mission to date and 12th crew flight since it started launching humans to space in 2021.

The crew for NS-32 is as always a diverse one. It includes Aymette Medina Jorge, Dr. Gretchen Green, Jaime Alemán, Jesse Williams, Mark Rocket, and Paul Jeris who have served in fields ranging from engineering to entrepreneurship.

Jorge is a STEM teacher at Odyssey Academy in Texas whereas Green is a radiologist trained at Harvard, Yale and Brown Universities. Their crew mate Alemán is Panama's former ambassador to the United States, an attorney and a businessman who will also be accompanied by Rocket, CEO of Kea Aerospace. Jeris, on the other hand, is an entrepreneur and Williams an entrepreneur, cyclist and mountaineer who has summited six of seven highest peaks.

The NS-32 mission will be second after the success of NS-31 which flew an all-women crew on April 14.

It was led by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez who was accompanied by pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King along with rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn. While the mission was historic for having the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova's solo Soviet flight in 1963, it drew intense backlash.

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