Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O'Brien
Vanessa O'Brien in 2015
Alma materNew York University Stern School of Business
Websitewww.vobonline.com
Space career
Blue Origin Sub-orbital spaceflight Participant
Flight time
10 minutes, 20 seconds
MissionsBlue Origin NS-22
Mission insignia

Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien is a British and American mountaineer, sub-orbital spaceflight participant, explorer, and former business executive. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and an Honorary Advisory Member of The Scientific Exploration Society (SES). Vanessa became a Dame of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, in 2023. O'Brien is also the author of To The Greatest Heights, a memoir detailing her mountaineering journey.