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Prior to exploring, O'Brien was in senior management of financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays Bank and the Bank of America, according to her website biography. O'Brien will be the second individual to complete the trio of challenges after Victor Viscovo, who flew on Blue Origin NS-21 on June 4. Vanessa O'Brien is a British-American explorer seeking to become the first woman to complete the Explorers' extreme trifecta of reaching space she has already summited Mount Everest (Earth's highest peak) and explored our planet's deepest extent (the Challenger Deep), which are the other two requirements of the trifecta.

Ferreira's activities have included scuba diving, running the London Marathon and participating in a car rally known as the Dakar. The group includes 40 companies in sectors including tourism, media, real estate, renewable energy and insurance, Blue Origin stated. Ferreira is a Portuguese entrepreneur, investor and President of Pluris Investments Group. Mário Ferreira will be the first person from Portugal to fly into space, according to Blue Origin. Sabry's seat is sponsored by Space for Humanity. Sabry completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the American University in Cairo and a master's in biomedical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. She also was Egypt's first analog astronaut in 2021, having completed a two-week simulated moon mission at the LunAres Research Station in Poland. Sara Sabry is a founder of the Deep Space Initiative, which aims to "increase accessibility for space research," and will be the first person from Egypt to fly to space, Blue Origin stated. The last launch on June 4, for example, included a person sponsored by the nonprofit Space For Humanity, which flies individuals to space for free, following an application process.īelow are descriptions of the six individuals flying aboard NS-22.
