Up to date on: Aug 03, 2025 07:19 pm IST
Arvi Bahal has traveled to each nation on the planet, was joined by 5 others on the 14th crewed mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program.
Arvinder ‘Arvi’ Singh Bahal, an 80-year-old Agra-born adventurer and actual property investor, lifted off for house aboard Blue Origin’s NS-34 mission on Saturday. The suborbital flight lifted off from the corporate’s Launch Website One in West Texas, marking one other milestone in non-public human spaceflight.
Describing Bahal, Blue Origin wrote, “Arvi is an actual property investor born in Agra, India, and now a naturalized US citizen. A lifelong traveler and adventurer, Arvi has visited each nation on the planet, the North and South Poles, and skydived Mount Everest and the Pyramids of Giza. He holds a non-public pilot’s license and in addition flies helicopters.”
Bahal, who now lives within the US and has traveled to each nation on the planet, was joined by 5 others on the 14th crewed mission of Blue Origin’s New Shepard program. The various crew included:
- Justin Solar, Chinese language crypto entrepreneur and TRON founder
- Deborah Martorell, Puerto Rican meteorologist
- Gokhan Erdem, Turkish businessman
- Lionel Pitchford, British educator and humanitarian
- JD Russell, American entrepreneur making his second Blue Origin flight
The flight will final round 10 minutes and take the capsule previous the Karman line – the internationally acknowledged boundary of house at 100 kilometers altitude – earlier than returning safely to Earth.
For Bahal, who can also be a licensed pilot and a former Everest flyover participant, the spaceflight was the fruits of a lifelong ardour for exploration.
Blue Origin’s house flights
This was Blue Origin’s third crewed flight of 2025, including to its rising roster of house vacationers because it continues to pioneer industrial house journey.
Earlier this 12 months, Blue Origin took Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez to house an all-female superstar crew that included American singer Katy Perry and actor Gayle King.
Blue Origin New Shepard mission NS-31, its eleventh human flight, lifted off from Launch Website One in West Texas on April 14 with an all-women crew.
