Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket is called New Shepard, in honor of Alan Shepard.
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60 years after her father’s historic flight, she will also cross the final frontier: Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, will be one of six passengers on the next flight. by Blue Origin.
Jeff Bezos’ space company on Tuesday announced its third crewed flight will launch on December 9, from Blue’s base in West Texas.
Churchley and American television personality Michael Strahan, co-host of “Good Morning America,” were guests on the cruise – a roughly 10-minute round-trip to the internationally recognized space frontier. acknowledge and come back again.
The other four are paying customers: space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, founder of Bess Ventures, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess. Lane and Cameron Bess will become the first father-son duo to fly into space.
Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket is called New Shepard, in honor of pioneering NASA astronaut Alan Shepard.
“It is with great pleasure that I say that an original Shepard will fly over New Shepard,” said Shepard Churchley, who runs a science promotion and fundraiser for college students. a science promotion and fundraiser for college students.
“I’m very proud of my father’s legacy.”
Alan Shepard performed a 15-minute spaceflight on May 5, 1961, 23 days after the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
Shepard, who died in 1998, was the fifth of twelve men to have set foot on the Moon.
Previous Blue Origin flights have carried the company’s billionaire founder Bezos as well as Star Trek actor William Shatner into space.
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