Blue Origin NS-19

Blue Origin NS-19 was a New Shepardsub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin that launched on 11 December 2021. The flight was scheduled to launch on 9 December 2021, later delayed to 11 December 2021.

The mission patch of the flight also featured the initials of Glen de Vries who died in a plane crash a month after flying on Blue Origin's previous flight NS-18. The passengers of NS-19 were the final recipients of the FAA Commercial Space Astronaut Wings, an aviator wings-like badge created by the Federal Aviation Administration to encourage and draw attention to commercial space flight.

Notably, the launch of NS-19 occurred the day after a tornado caused the collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Illinois, killing six workers. Jeff Bezos both attended and publicly celebrated the launch of NS-19 on Instagram multiple hours before releasing a statement on Twitter about the warehouse collapse, which drew controversy from some users of the site.