Benthaus is among six passengers selected to ride on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, scheduled to get off the ground from West Texas on its 37th spaceflight. The passengers of NS-37 would join 80 ...

Blue Origin's next New Shepard rocket launch is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 18, from its private site in West Texas. The six-person crew includes an aerospace engineer who could become the first ...

In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a ...

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and teammates spent several minutes in microgravity. Blue Origin made history Saturday, sending for the first time a person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

The crew includes a physicist from Florida and a German aerospace engineer who could become the first person who uses a wheelchair to reach space. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, ...

Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus made spaceflight history on Saturday morning (Dec. 20). Blue Origin launched Benthaus and her five crewmates on a suborbital spaceflight from the company's West Texas ...

The New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch from West Texas on Thursday, December 18. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, offering passengers a few minutes of weightlessness. Other ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. The flight took off at ...