Jesus Calleja
Jesus Calleja is a television host, mountaineer, and pilot. That professional background preceded Calleja's participation in Blue Origin's human-spaceflight program.
- Born
- N/A
- Died
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- Birthplace
- Spain
Flights
1
Spacewalks
N/A
EVA time
N/A
In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
NS-30 launched on February 25, 2025 aboard New Shepard, with Calleja serving as Astronaut.
New Shepard launches vertically from West Texas, carries its autonomous crew above the atmosphere, and returns the capsule under parachutes while the lands separately under power. Jesus Calleja therefore has 1 completed spaceflight; backup, training, canceled, and future assignments are excluded from that total. The mission connected Calleja's professional experience with direct work aboard a crewed spacecraft and a completed flight assignment. The flight converted that professional background into direct experience of launch, weightlessness, Earth viewing, , and recovery.