Blue Origin Completes First Space Flight With Wheelchair User

Michaela Benthaus

Photographer: Felix Hörhager/picture alliance/Getty Images

Jeff BezosBlue 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.