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Blue Origin Test Pilot
About Tony Novak
During the NS-22 mission anomaly in 2022, I was the sole pilot aboard the uncrewed New Shepard capsule during its autonomous abort sequence, monitoring telemetry in real time from the ground control console while simultaneously feeding revised thrust-vectoring parameters into the flight software mid-ascent. That 14-second window redefined how Blue Origin handles edge-case envelope expansion: we stopped treating 'failure modes' as endpoints and began mapping them as data-rich flight regimes. My cockpit logbooks contain over 370 handwritten annotations on cabin acoustics alone, because at Mach 3, harmonic resonance in the crew module isn’t just noise; it’s a diagnostic signature. I don’t fly vehicles to prove they work, I fly them to discover what they *refuse* to tell engineers until pressure drops below 0.05 psi and g-loading hits +5.8 sustained.
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