Blue Origin is preparing to launch six humans to space on December 18. The NS-37 mission is scheduled to liftoff at 9:30 pm IST [10 am CST] from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. Carrying five men and one woman, the New Shepard spacecraft will reach an altitude of over 100 kilometres beyond the Karman Line – the internationally recognised boundary of space.
Welcome to Astronaut Village, NS-37 Crew! pic.twitter.com/QcBHhw2aiG
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) December 15, 2025
Where to watch the launch live?
The NS-37 mission’s webcast will begin 40 minutes prior to launch. You can watch it live on Blue Origin‘s official website. The company will also share live updates of the mission on its X profile.
Meet Blue Origin’s NS-37 crew members?
The NS-37 mission crew is a group of accomplished scientists and entrepreneurs. Michaela Benthaus (Michi), an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, is the only woman in the crew. She will also script history as the first wheelchair user to visit space. According to Blue Origin, she lost her ability to walk after a mountain biking accident in 2018.
Accompanying Michi is Joey Hyde, a Florida-based physicist and Hans Koenigsmann a German-aerospace engineer who worked at SpaceX for two decades. They will be joined by Neal Milch – a global business executive and entrepreneur, Adonis Pouroulis – an entrepreneur, investor and mining engineer along with Jason Stansell – a computer scientist.
Blue Origin’s blockbuster 2025
Blue Origin has had its most successful year to date thanks to half-a-dozen crew missions and two New Glenn launches. NS-37 will mark its seventh space tourism mission of 2025, and the 16th human spaceflight overall. It has launched 36 New Shepard missions to date, thus the next is named NS-37.
The most discussed mission launched earlier this year was the all-female crew flight including pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’s wife Lauren Sanchez, which made news for the extravaganza.
Blue Origin also launched its heaviest rocket New Glenn twice. First in January on the successful debut flight, wherein New Glenn reached orbit in the first attempt and again in November when the company aced the landing of New Glenn’s first stage booster. The second flight was historic for New Glenn because it involved launching its first Mars mission – ESCAPADE – for NASA.
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