Blue Origin's fourth crewed New Shepard flight successfully traveled to the edge of space and back, reaching an altitude just above 62 miles.
The fourth crewed flight from the Jeff Bezos-owned space tourism company blasted off to the edge of space on Thursday. And while Blue Origin’s previous crewed trips to suborbital space boasted celebrities such as “Star Trek” star William Shatner and NFL star Michael Strahan — not to mention Amazon AMZN, -0.48% founder Bezos, himself — aboard the New Shepard space capsule, none of the six passengers on this most recent trip were necessarily household names.
Blue Origin employee Gary Lai, who was a chief architect of the New Shepard program, took Davidson’s place on the company’s 20th mission to space. He was joined by turnaround CEO and angel investor Marty Allen; Sharon Hagel, who founded the SpaceKids Global nonprofit, and her husband Marc Hagel, CEO of Tricor International; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen; and Dr. George Nield, the president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC.
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