Blue Origin affords bobbleheads of 1st New Shepard feminine fliers

The primary three ladies to fly into house on Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft have been honored with their very personal bobbleheads.

The restricted version collectible figurines (opens in new tab), which function the spring-loaded nodding heads of business astronauts Wally Funk, Audrey Powers and Laura Shepard Churchley, at the moment are out there from Blue Origin’s on-line store (opens in new tab). The bobbleheads are boxed in mission-specific packaging and retail for $34.95 every.

Along with capturing the likeness of every lady, the Funk, Powers and Churchley bobbleheads depict their topic within the blue flight go well with that they wore for his or her 10-minute-long suborbital spaceflights, full with identify tag and miniature mission patch. Every 7-inch (18 centimeters) statuette is mounted to a black base that additionally shows the astronaut’s identify.

Funk is modeled along with her arms outstretched, recreating the pose she struck after her NS-16 flight. One of many so-called “Mercury 13” feminine pilots (opens in new tab) who privately underwent the identical medical checks as NASA’s “Unique 7” Mercury astronauts within the Sixties, Funk lastly reached house in July 2021. She flew with three others, together with Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (opens in new tab), on the corporate’s first crewed launch. Funk, who was 82 on the time of her flight, holds the document for the oldest lady to fly into house.

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New Shepard commercial astronauts Audrey Powers (at left), Wally Funk (at center) and Laura Shepard Churchley now have their own limited edition bobblehead figurines courtesy of Blue Origin, the company that launched them into space.

New Shepard business astronauts Audrey Powers (at left), Wally Funk (at middle) and Laura Shepard Churchley now have their very own restricted version bobblehead collectible figurines courtesy of Blue Origin, the corporate that launched them into house. (Picture credit score: Blue Origin/collectSPACE.com)

Powers flew on NS-18 in October 2021, the identical flight that included actor William Shatner of “Star Trek” fame (opens in new tab). As Blue Origin’s vp for mission and flight operations, Powers turned the corporate’s first worker astronaut. Her figurine consists of her sporting the customized Omega Speedmaster wristwatch that Blue Origin presents to every of its New Shepard crew members.

“I am so grateful I had the chance to see the Earth from house, and I want everybody might share in that have,” Powers mentioned in a press release (opens in new tab) launched by Blue Origin.

Churchley’s bobblehead consists of her sporting two rings, together with her father’s Naval Academy class ring (opens in new tab), which he flew to the moon in 1971 after which she returned to house on NS-19 (opens in new tab) in December 2021. Churchley is the daughter of Alan Shepard (opens in new tab), the primary U.S. astronaut to fly in house, the commander of Apollo 14 and the late namesake for Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch car.

The bobbleheads are a brand new providing for Blue Origin, which additionally affords company-branded attire, mission patches, New Shepard scale fashions and merchandise for its nonprofit academic and advocacy group, Membership for the Future.

So far, Blue Origin has launched six human spaceflights and a complete of 31 individuals (one particular person flew twice). In September 2022, the corporate suffered a launch failure on its twenty third New Shepard mission, an uncrewed flight with solely science experiments and cargo aboard. Blue Origin is predicted to renew flights in 2023.