Blue Origin

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

Clint is an electrical engineer with a Bachelor of Science from Duke University and a PhD from the University of Michigan, who led government and industry R&D in computer science and robotics. At DARPA in 1984, he launched the Autonomous Land Vehicle project, catalyzing today’s driverless cars. He conducted space-sensing research for national security, funds university rocket teams, and has served on corporate boards and university advisory councils. With his wife, he has photographed wildlife on every continent—from big cats and polar bears to all 21 penguin species—and authored a 486-page penguin book. Clint first flew to space on NS-22 on August 4, 2022. Courtesy of Blue Origin.

NS-36

Blue Origin launched a New Shepard crewed mission to suborbital space.

Named after the first American to reach space, Alan Shepard, the New Shepard rocket is powered by a single Blue Origin-developed engine for both launch and landing.

New Shepard

NS-22

Blue Origin will launch its sixth crewed suborbital mission. The NS-22 mission will send the first Portugal-born man and Egyptian woman to space.

Clint Kelly III

United States of America

Sara Sabry 

Egypt

Steve Young 

Vanessa O'Brien 

Mario Ferreira 

Portugal

Coby Cotton 

Kazakhstan

Ukraine

Jeff Elgin

Danna Karagussova

Aaron Newman 

Vitalii Ostrovsky

Will Lewis

Nation Undisclosed

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