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Crew Profile
Vanessa O’Brien Blue Origin crew profile with mission-linked sources, biography, and New Shepard flight history. Vanessa O’Brien went to space on Blue Origin New Shepard NS-22.
Includes Blue Origin New Shepard flight references. "New Shepherd" is a common misspelling of New Shepard.
This profile owns the person-level Blue Origin crew record for Vanessa O’Brien: identity, New Shepard flight history, source links, role labels, image availability, and exact mission links when launch records are available.
Traveler pages describe people. New Shepard mission hubs own program context, flight pages own mission-group browsing, and exact launch records own countdown, status, vehicle, pad, and source-specific launch details.
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien is a British and American mountaineer, explorer, aquanaut, author and former business executive. On June 12, 2020, O'Brien became the first woman to reach Earth's highest and lowest points, receiving a Guinness World Record. She became the first American woman to climb K2 and the first British woman to climb K2 (as a result of her dual nationality) on 28 July 2017, successfully leading a team of 12 members to the summit and back on her third attempt. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and a Member of The Scientific Exploration Society (SES).
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NS-22
Role: Crew
