Oliver Daemen
Oliver Daemen is a student and youngest person in space at the time. That professional background preceded Daemen's participation in Blue Origin's human-spaceflight program.
- Born
- N/A
- Died
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- Birthplace
- Netherlands
Flights
1
Spacewalks
N/A
EVA time
N/A
In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
NS-16 launched on July 20, 2021 aboard New Shepard, with Daemen 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. Oliver Daemen therefore has 1 completed spaceflight; backup, training, canceled, and future assignments are excluded from that total. The mission connected Daemen'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.