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Blue Origin New Shepard Suit
Designation: Blue Origin NS Pressure Suit
The white suit Jeff Bezos wore on Blue Origin's first crewed New Shepard flight — clean and functional, worn by commercial passengers reaching 107 km altitude.
About This Suit
The Blue Origin New Shepard pressure suit is the intravehicular suit worn by all New Shepard crew members on commercial suborbital flights from the West Texas launch facility. Designed entirely in-house by Blue Origin, the white suit features a simplified construction optimized for the 10–11 minute New Shepard flight profile — the entire mission above the Kármán line (100 km) lasts approximately 4 minutes. The suit has no independent life support: it connects via umbilical to the New Shepard Crew Capsule's environmental control system and pressurizes only in an emergency. The helmet is an integrated soft hood with face shield, not a separate hard helmet. On July 20, 2021 — the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing — Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen flew as New Shepard NS-16's crew. Wally Funk, aged 82, became the oldest person ever to fly to space wearing this suit; Oliver Daemen, aged 18, became the youngest.
Key Features
- 1Streamlined design for New Shepard's 10–11 minute total flight profile
- 2Soft integrated helmet hood — no separate hard helmet shell
- 3Umbilical connected to New Shepard Crew Capsule for all life support
- 4Emergency pressurization capability if cabin pressure fails
- 5Custom-fitted to each paying passenger and crew member
- 6White exterior — clean aesthetic consistent with Blue Origin design language
Historic Missions
2021
New Shepard NS-16
First crewed New Shepard flight — Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk (oldest person in space at 82), Oliver Daemen (youngest at 18), July 20, 2021
👨🚀 Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, Oliver Daemen
2021
New Shepard commercial flights (NS-18 onward)
Ongoing commercial service; passengers include William Shatner (NS-18, 2021, aged 90 — oldest person in space record)
Engineering & Research Highlights
- ◆NS-18 passenger William Shatner (age 90) wearing this suit briefly held the record for oldest person in space — later surpassed; suit fitted for a wider anthropometric range than any prior spacesuit
- ◆New Shepard automated abort system integrated with suit design — suit provides survivability during pad abort or ascent abort scenarios