New Shepard’s 26th mission to space. The crew includes Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen, and Ephraim Rabin. Live coverage begins at T-40 minutes to launch.
Kitchen will become the youngest woman ever to cross the Kármán line. Ferl will be the first NASA-funded researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial suborbital space crew. The experiment is designed to help scientists understand how plant genes react to the transition to and from microgravity.