Blue Origin successfully completed their 7th crewed flight to the edge of space. The crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, who was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as the nation’s first Black astronaut candidate but never had the opportunity to fly.
Currently, New Shepard has flown 37 people into space, including the crew on May 19. The spacecraft made its way to the Kármán line, or the boundary of space, approximately 62 miles above Earth, after lifting off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas shortly after 10:30AM ET.
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