RSS Kármán Line (Reusable Space Ship Kármán Line) is a New Shepard space capsule, built and operated by American spaceflight company Blue Origin. It is the fourth New Shepard capsule to fly to space, and the second to fly passengers, after RSS First Step. The capsule's first uncrewed flight was the NS-27 mission on 23 October 2024, which was also the maiden flight of New Shepard booster NS5.
History RSS Kármán Line, the fourth New Shepard capsule, was built by Blue Origin to "better meet growing customer demand" for New Shepard flights. The spacecraft is named after the Kármán line, an altitude of and the conventional definition of the edge of space, which the capsule crosses at the apogee of its sub-orbital spaceflight, itself named after Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist Theodore von Kármán. The capsule first flew on the uncrewed NS-27 verification mission, which launched on 23 October 2024 carrying twelve customer payloads, after issues pushed back the launch from 7 October 2024.
The first crewed flight of the capsule was NS-31, which was the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6.
Flights Mission Launch date (UTC) Landing date (UTC) Crew Duration Remarks Outcome NS-27 23 October 2024 23 October 2024 Uncrewed ~10 minutesUncrewed test flight. Maiden flight of NS5 propulsion module. NS-31 14 April 2025 14 April 2025 Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren Sánchez ~10 minutes, 21 seconds First crewed flight. First all female crew since Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. NS-3329 June 2025, 14:4029 June 2025, 14:50 Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno Jr., Owolabi Salis, James (Jim) Sitkin10 minutes, 14 secondsSpace tourism mission. 13th crewed flight of New Shepard.NS-3720 December 2025, 14:1520 December 2025, 14:25 Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, Joey Hyde, Hans Koenigsmann, Neal Milch, Adonis Pouroulis, Jason Stansell10 minutes, 26 secondsSpace tourism mission. 16th crewed flight of New Shepard.
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