<\/p>\n You can watch it live via Blue Origin.<\/a> Space.com will carry the feed as well if, as expected, the company makes it available.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n As its name suggests, NS-38 will be the 38th flight of New Shepard<\/a>, Blue Origin’s reusable rocket-capsule combo. Sixteen of the vehicle’s 37 missions to date have carried people; the others have been uncrewed research flights.<\/p>\n New Shepard flights last 10 to 12 minutes from liftoff to the capsule’s parachute-aided touchdown. During this time, passengers get to experience a brief period of weightlessness<\/a> and see Earth against the blackness of space.<\/p>\n Blue Origin has not revealed how much it charges for a seat aboard New Shepard. Virgin Galactic<\/a>, the company’s chief competitor in the suborbital space tourism industry, has done so; Virgin Galactic tickets are $600,000 apiece<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n The passengers for Blue Origin’s NS-38 suborbital mission. (Image credit: Blue Origin)<\/p>\n The six people going up on NS-38 are entrepreneur and pilot Tim Drexler; retired obstetrician\/gynecologist Linda Edwards; real estate developer and investor Alain Fernandez; entrepreneur and technologist Alberto Guti\u00e9rrez; retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jim Hendren, who founded the company Hendren Plastics Inc.; and Laura Stiles, Blue Origin\u2019s director of New Shepard launch operations. You can read more about them all via Blue Origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stiles is a late addition to the manifest. Blue Origin just announced her inclusion today (Jan. 20), explaining that she’s replacing a passenger who can no longer fly on Thursday due to illness (but will get to participate in a future mission).<\/p>\n The person who dropped out is presumably Andrew Yaffe, a veteran of the recycling industry who was identified as an NS-38 crewmember in Blue Origin’s first update about the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six space tourists will launch to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-243450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tuT46zpNFDvxdXzjzQG6nX.jpg\")
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