Aaron Charles Newman

Aaron Newman is a Ukrainian businessman, hotel and real estate investor, systems analyst and web developer, and a private spaceflight participant rather than a career astronaut. He flew as a passenger on Blue Origin NS-36, a suborbital New Shepard flight that launched from Launch Site One, near Corn Ranch in West Texas, on 8 October 2025. It was the 15th human flight and the 36th flight overall of the New Shepard programme. On the flight he took part in a study with Utah State University on human adaptation to spaceflight, focused on vestibular function and motion sickness. It was his only spaceflight.

Flights: 1: Blue Origin NS-36 (2025)
Flights with a company: Blue Origin NS-36 (Blue Origin)

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

8 October 2025

New Shepard NS-36
- New Shepard
- Jeff Elgin, Danna Karagussova, Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman, Vitalii Ostrovsky, Will Lewis
1 video
- VideoFromSpace