{"id":211843,"date":"2025-04-19T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blue-origin-launches-all-woman-new-shepard-suborbital-flight"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:05:14","slug":"blue-origin-launches-all-woman-new-shepard-suborbital-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blue-origin-launches-all-woman-new-shepard-suborbital-flight","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin launches all-woman New Shepard suborbital flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-launches-all-woman-new-shepard-suborbital-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Blue Shepard launched six women, including a pop star and TV show host, on a suborbital flight of the company\u2019s New Shepard vehicle April 14.<\/p>\n<p>New Shepard lifted off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas after a problem-free countdown. The vehicle\u2019s capsule, RSS K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line, reached a peak altitude of 106 kilometers before landing 10 minutes and 21 seconds after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The NS-31 mission, the company\u2019s 11<sup>th<\/sup> crewed suborbital flight, flew a routine profile but with a unique complement of spaceflight participants. It was the company\u2019s first mission to carry only women, and the first all-woman spaceflight of any kind since Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on a solo flight in 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Blue Shepard launched six women, including a pop star and TV show host, on a suborbital flight of the company\u2019s New Shepard vehicle April 14. New Shepard lifted off at 9:30 a.m. Eastern from the company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas after a problem-free countdown. The vehicle\u2019s capsule, RSS K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line, reached [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}