Crew Profile
Lead Systems Engineer
Lead Systems Engineer Blue Origin crew profile with mission-linked sources, biography, and New Shepard flight history. Lead Systems Engineer went to space on Blue Origin New Shepard NS-20.
Includes Blue Origin New Shepard flight references. "New Shepherd" is a common misspelling of New Shepard.
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Profile summary
Jim Kitchen is a teacher, entrepreneur, and world explorer who has visited all 193 U.N.-recognized countries. He’s been a space dreamer since watching NASA’s Apollo rocket launches in Florida as a child. As a college student in the 1980s, he promoted low Earth orbit space trips for a startup. Since 2010, Jim has served on the faculty of University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, teaching students to create world-changing for-profit and nonprofit ventures.
Profile links
- blueorigin.com
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/ns-20-mission-updates
Flight history
- New Shepard | NS-20Mar 31, 2022
NS-20
Role: Crew