Austin Litteral
Austin Litteral is a risk-management professional in the financial-services industry and a commercial spaceflight participant. Blue Origin described him as a husband and father of two who spends time hiking with his family and following local sports. Photographs of Space Shuttle launches in his childhood bedroom helped turn human spaceflight into a lasting ambition.
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Flights
1
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In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
Litteral received his New Shepard seat through the Whatnot to the Moon giveaway. He launched from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas on NS-28 on November 22, 2024. The autonomous suborbital flight carried six people above the Kármán line before the crew returned by parachute and the reusable made a powered landing.
NS-28 was New Shepard's ninth human spaceflight. Its used stars to represent Litteral's vision of people living among the stars. The flight fulfilled the childhood ambition that began with those Shuttle-launch photographs and remains his one completed spaceflight.