Elaine Hyde
Elaine Chia Hyde is an entrepreneur, physicist, pilot, and commercial spaceflight participant. Born in Singapore and raised in Australia, she studied business and physics at the University of Melbourne before moving to the United States. Blue Origin identified her as founder of the Chicago Star media company and Eastside Enterprises, a research-and-development company working on artificial-intelligence-assisted media products.
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In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
Hyde launched from West Texas aboard New Shepard mission NS-30 on February 25, 2025. The six-person traveled above the Kármán line during the program's tenth human flight, then returned under parachutes while the reusable landed separately.
The Southern Cross on the NS-30 patch represented her Singaporean and Australian background, while airplane-and-cloud imagery recognized the pilots in the crew. The flight extended a childhood interest in experiments and space into one completed suborbital mission.