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(Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is slated to launch a crew of six on a suborbital joyride Thursday, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers.
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The launch window for the flight opens at 11 a.m. New York time. The rocket will take off from West Texas on a roughly 11-minute trip for a quick experience of weightlessness.
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Michaela Benthaus, who was injured during a mountain biking accident in 2018, is an aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency. Hans Koenigsmann worked at SpaceX for two decades, most recently as the company’s vice president of avionics, before retiring in 2021.
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The launch marks the 16th human spaceflight for Bezos’ tourism company using New Shepard, a small craft built to send people on short trips to the edge of space, as well as to conduct research missions.
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While Blue Origin does not disclose its price for a seat on one of its tourism flights, rival space tourism company Virgin Galactic charges around $600,000 for a similar experience.
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In April, pop star Katy Perry, Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez and CBS News host Gayle King took the flight, becoming part of the first all-female crew to go to space in more than 60 years.
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The other members onboard are retired investor Joey Hyde, business executive Neal Milch, energy entrepreneur and investor Adonis Pouroulis and Tulane University graduate Jason Stansell.
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The company also operates its much larger, heavy-lift New Glenn rocket, which is capable of delivering spacecraft and satellites to orbit and beyond.
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Blue Origin completed a successful second flight of New Glenn in November, in which the rocket deployed two Mars-bound NASA spacecraft and nailed the landing of its reusable booster on a barge in the Atlantic.
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