Blue Origin Launches Passenger Suborbital Spaceflight

Irene Klotz July 20, 2021
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The New Shepard capsule settled onto the desert floor at 8:21 a.m. local time on July 20, adding four more people to the list of humans who have flown at least 50 mi. above Earth.
Credit: Blue Origin
VAN HORN, Texas—Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, two guests and the company’s first paying passenger took a 10-min. suborbital spaceflight on July 20, marking the first time a crewed spacecraft made a debut flight without test pilots, test engineers or professional astronauts aboard. Instead...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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