Educator alum Aymette (Amy) Medina Jorge and Space Camp alum Dr. Gretchen Green will join the 12th human flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program.

Amy Jorge attended the Space Camp Academy for Educators in 2024 and would be the first educator alumna to go to space. She is a high school and middle school STEM teacher at Odyssey Academy in Galveston, Texas. She has led more than 60 space experiments and Zero-Gravity projects, including flying biometric sensors developed by her students and performing in-flight 3D printing as part of a parabolic Zero-G flight. Born in Puerto Rico, Amy’s mission is to boost Hispanic representation in STEM fields and push for greater inclusion in science for underrepresented communities. She is the 2023 AIAA and Challenger Center Trailblazing STEM Educator Award recipient, which celebrates educators who go above and beyond to inspire the next generation of explorers and innovators in STEM. Amy’s seat is sponsored by Farmacias Similares, a Mexican company committed to social impact and accessible healthcare across Latin America. 

Dr. Green is a radiologist specializing in women’s imaging with over 20 years of clinical experience. An educator, explorer, and lifelong space enthusiast, she first attended Space Camp in 1986, later worked as a Crew Trainer, chaired the Space Camp Alumni Association, and now serves on the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation Board. Nationally recognized as a medicolegal expert witness and entrepreneur, she founded The Expert Resource to help physicians build expert witness businesses and improve patient care. A certified life coach, she empowers others to pursue their highest purpose. At 16, she bicycled across the U.S. to fight hunger and, in 2022, reached the North Pole. Dr. Green trained at Harvard, Yale, and Brown, earning degrees in neuroscience, history of medicine, and medicine from Brown, and is a proud graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. 

Read more about the New Shepard program and the other mission participants.