Blue Origin Performs its 15th Space Tourism Launch Written 9 October 2025
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-36 mission lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas, October 8, 2025. | Credit: Blue Origin
SPACE reports, “Blue Origin launched its 15th space tourism flight” yesterday (Oct. 8), “sending six people on a brief trip to the final frontier, including a mystery passenger who only revealed his identity after the flight. The company’s New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site [Wednesday] at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT; 8:40 a.m. local Texas time), kicking off a suborbital flight known as NS-36.”
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