Blue Origin Space Tourism Launch Includes First Wheelchair User
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Article content(Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is slated to launch a crew of six on a suborbital joyride Thursday, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. Sign In or Create an AccountEmail AddressContinueor View more offersArticle contentThe launch window for the flight opens at 11 a.m. New York time. The rocket will take off from West Texas on a roughly 11-minute trip for a quick experience of weightlessness. Article contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Article contentMichaela Benthaus, who was injured during a mountain biking accident in 2018, is an aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency. Hans Koenigsmann worked at SpaceX for two decades, most recently as the company’s vice president of avionics, before retiring in 2021. Article contentArticle contentSubscribe Now: The Business of Space newsletter, delivering the inside stories of investments beyond Earth, from satellite networks to moon landings. Article contentTop StoriesGet the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.Sign UpBy signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.Thanks for signing up!A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againInterested in more newsletters? Browse here.Article contentThe launch marks the 16th human spaceflight for Bezos’ tourism company using New Shepard, a small craft built to send people on short trips to the edge of space, as well as to conduct research missions. Article contentWhile Blue Origin does not disclose its price for a seat on one of its tourism flights, rival space tourism company Virgin Galactic charges around $600,000 for a similar experience.Article contentIn April, pop star Katy Perry, Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez and CBS News host Gayle King took the flight, becoming part of the first all-female crew to go to space in more than 60 years.Article contentThe other members onboard are retired investor Joey Hyde, business executive Neal Milch, energy entrepreneur and investor Adonis Pouroulis and Tulane University graduate Jason Stansell. Article contentThe company also operates its much larger, heavy-lift New Glenn rocket, which is capable of delivering spacecraft and satellites to orbit and beyond. Article contentBlue Origin completed a successful second flight of New Glenn in November, in which the rocket deployed two Mars-bound NASA spacecraft and nailed the landing of its reusable booster on a barge in the Atlantic. Article contentTrending Philip Cross: The sad story of Justin Trudeau’s 'youthful idiots' FP Comment Posthaste: Here's where home prices plunged the most in tough year for Canada's housing market News Welcome to the K-shaped economy: Canadians look back on a 'brutal,' 'great' year in Trump's trade war Economy Is a $2.75 million portfolio enough for Halifax empty nesters to retire early?
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