Once was not enough. Winter Park power couple Marc and Sharon Hagle traveled to space on a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket back in 2022. Now they’re set to fly again.

The duo were among the six people announced for Blue Origin’s NS-28 mission, the ninth human spaceflight for Jeff Bezos’ company’s suborbital rocket that launches from west Texas.

Also flying will be science communicator Emily Calandrelli, financial services exec Austin Litteral, who won his seat from a contest run by livestream shopping platform Whatnot, entrepreneur James Russell and investment banking CEO Henry Wolfond.

The Hagles were among the first to purchase spaceflight reservations on Blue Origin competitor Virgin Galactic more than 17 years ago, but have yet to on Richard Branson’s space tourism venture. They finally made it space with Blue Origin on the NS-20 mission on March 31, 2022, the fourth ever flight of New Shepard with humans.

The entire flight took just over 10 minutes, and featured just a few minutes of weightlessness as the rocket’s capsule traversed the Karman line — about 62 miles high — the internationally recognized altitude for someone having gone into space. It then made a parachute-assisted landing just a few miles from the launch site.

“You know, when the engines ignited, my energy level just exploded,” Marc Hagle said after landing. “Then when you get to outer space, and you start seeing the blue marble as everybody describes it in the black of space, there’s no way of describing it.”

“It was great having a partner with you,” Sharon added.

The pair, who were 73 on that first trip, became the first married couple on a commercial spaceflight, and took some time while weightless to share a kiss. The trip was a 26th wedding anniversary present.

Marc Hagle is president and CEO of Central Florida commercial property company Tricor International Corp., and Sharon Hagle is founder of local nonprofit SpaceKids Global. The couple live in Winter Park and have a philanthropic hand in several Orlando-area ventures.

A date for their return flight has yet to be announced, and Blue Origin has not said if it will mark the debut of its new rocket and capsule, the RSS Kármán Line, or if the Hagles will fly on the same capsule they flew on in 2022, the RSS First Step.

The new New Shepard booster and capsule have flown just one uncrewed flight earlier this year. It was a replacement for a New Shepard rocket booster that exploded on a flight without humans in 2022.

The FAA grounded New Shepard after that incident, and Blue Origin only returned to human spaceflights in 2024. NS-28 will be the third human spaceflight for the rocket since the FAA cleared it to fly again.

All human flights so far have been on the RSS First Step, with 43 people taken to space so far, including one two-time flier. The Hagles would join the short list of repeat fliers on commercial rockets.

Bezos was on its debut human spaceflight in 2021, and others that have flown on it since include the likes of Star Trek’s William Shatner, NFL Hall of Famer and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American in space for whom the rocket is named.

NS-28 will be the 28th flight overall for a New Shepard rocket. Blue Origin has also been progressing toward the first flight of its heavy-lift rocket New Glenn rocket, named after John Glenn. That flight is targeted before the end of the year launching from Cape Canaveral.