Lauren Sánchez

American - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: Sept. 19, 1969
Age: 56

Lauren Wendy Sánchez is an American journalist, author and philanthropist who gained fame as an entertainment reporter and news anchor. She is a licensed pilot and founder of Black Ops Aviation. In 2023, she became engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Spaceflight Record

Lauren Sánchez flew on one previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-31

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

Suborbital NS-5 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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CEO: Jeff Bezos

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Recent Launches

Electron

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5 hours, 25 minutes ago

Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of …

Kuaizhou 11

Success

1 day, 7 hours ago

DEAR-5

Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

DEAR-5 is a commercial in-orbit payload and micro-gravity experiments hosting spacecraft developed by Chinese commercial company AZSPACE for various …