Space
Blue Origin Completes First Space Flight With Wheelchair User
Michaela Benthaus
Photographer: Felix Hörhager/picture alliance/Getty Images
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 about 9:15 a.m. New York time, and the capsule landed roughly 11 minutes later in West Texas.