‘We Did It!’ Globe-Spanning Travelers Take a Quick Space Trip on Blue Origin Rocket Ship
31 May 2025
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GEEKWIRE - Six well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket ship to go where they’ve never gone before: the edge of space. The New Shepard rocket lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:39 a.m. CT (6:39 a.m. PT) today for a 10-minute mission.
This was Blue Origin’s 32nd New Shepard suborbital launch and its 12th crewed mission. New Shepard’s booster sent the crew capsule to a height of about 104 kilometers (64.4 miles, or 340,290 feet) — just beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) altitude that marks the internationally accepted boundary of space.
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