RSS Kármán Line

Short description: Blue Origin New Shepard capsule

RSS Kármán Line

Type| Space capsule
Class| New Shepard crew capsule
Manufacturer| Blue Origin
Flight history
First flight| Blue Origin NS-27
23 October 2024
Last flight|
Active
Flights| 4

RSS Kármán Line (Reusable Space Ship Kármán Line) is a New Shepard space capsule, built and operated by American spaceflight company Blue Origin.[1] It is the fourth New Shepard capsule to fly to space, and the second to fly passengers, after RSS First Step. The capsule's first uncrewed flight was the NS-27 mission on 23 October 2024, which was also the maiden flight of New Shepard booster NS5.[2]

## History

RSS Kármán Line, the fourth New Shepard capsule, was built by Blue Origin to "better meet growing customer demand" for New Shepard flights.[1] The spacecraft is named after the Kármán line, an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) and the conventional definition of the edge of space, which the capsule crosses at the apogee of its sub-orbital spaceflight,[3] itself named after Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist Theodore von Kármán. The capsule first flew on the uncrewed NS-27 verification mission, which launched on 23 October 2024 carrying twelve customer payloads, after issues pushed back the launch from 7 October 2024.[4][5]

The first crewed flight of the capsule was NS-31, which was the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6.[6]

## Flights

Mission  | Launch date (UTC)  | Landing date (UTC)  | Crew  | Duration  | Remarks  | Outcome

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NS-27  | 23 October 2024  | 23 October 2024  | Uncrewed  | ~10 minutes  | Uncrewed test flight. Maiden flight of NS5 propulsion module.  | Success
NS-31  | 14 April 2025  | 14 April 2025  |  Aisha Bowe,  Amanda Nguyễn,  Gayle King,  Katy Perry,  Kerianne Flynn,  Lauren Sánchez  | ~10 minutes , 21 seconds  | First crewed flight. First all female crew since Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.  | Success
NS-33  | 29 June 2025, 14:40  | 29 June 2025, 14:50  |  Allie Kuehner,  Carl Kuehner,  Leland Larson,  Freddie Rescigno, Jr.,  Owolabi Salis,  James (Jim) Sitkin  | 10 minutes, 14 seconds  | Space tourism mission. 13th crewed flight of New Shepard.  | Success
NS-37  | 20 December 2025, 14:15  | 20 December 2025, 14:25  |  Michaela "Michi" Benthaus,  Joey Hyde,  Hans Koenigsmann,  Neal Milch,  Adonis Pouroulis,  Jason Stansell  | 10 minutes, 26 seconds  | Space tourism mission. 16th crewed flight of New Shepard.  | Success

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Blue Origin Debuts Second Human-Rated New Shepard Rocket To Meet Demand". https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-debuts-second-human-rated-new-shepard-rocket.
2. ↑ Wall, Mike (23 October 2024). "Blue Origin launches 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket, nails landing (video)" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-vehicle-debut-ns-27-launch.
3. ↑ Tribou, Richard; Sentinel, Orlando (7 October 2024). "Blue Origin constructs new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo to expand human launches" (in en). phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-blue-shepard-rocket-capsule-combo.html.
4. ↑ @blueorigin (4 October 2024). "New Shepard #NS27 is an uncrewed verification flight debuting our second human-rated vehicle to meet growing customer demand. The launch window opens on Monday, October 7, at 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC: bit.ly/3XPzxrX". https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1842196161177833911.
5. ↑ Wall, Mike (4 October 2024). "Blue Origin delays debut launch of 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket due to GPS glitch" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-vehicle-debut-ns-27-launch.
6. ↑ Rice, Doyle (27 February 2025). "Historic all-woman space flight to include Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez". USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/27/historic-all-woman-space-flight/80508217007/.

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Blue Origin

Staff|

* Jeff Bezos (founder)
* Robert Smith (chief executive officer)
* Jeffrey Ashby (chief of mission assurance)

Launch vehicles|

* Goddard
* New Shepard
* New Glenn

Rocket engines|

* BE-1
* BE-2
* BE-3
* BE-4
* BE-7

Facilities|

* Kent-Seattle headquarters
* West Texas launch site
* SLC-36 Florida

Other projects|

* Blue Moon

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* ULA Vulcan

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