Paul Jeris
Paul Jeris is a real-estate developer, entrepreneur, traveler, and commercial spaceflight participant. Inspired by his father, who worked as a NASA engineer, he spent childhood summers on Florida's Space Coast watching launches from the Apollo, Space Shuttle, Mariner, Voyager, and Viking eras. Blue Origin reported that he later visited more than 149 countries and served on tourism boards.
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Flights
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In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
Jeris launched aboard New Shepard mission NS-32 from West Texas on May 31, 2025. The autonomous carried six people above the Kármán line during New Shepard's twelfth human flight, then returned under parachutes while the reusable landed separately.
Planets within the NS-32 mission number represented Jeris's long interest in space and exploration. The flight gave him the view of Earth he had sought since watching launches as a child and remains his one completed suborbital mission.