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Title: Six More Humans Successfully Carried to the Edge of Space by Blue
Origin

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/2...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Space.com: Three world travelers,
two Space Camp alums and an aerospace executive whose last name aptly matched
their shared adventure traveled into space and back Saturday, becoming the
latest six people to fly with Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by
billionaire Jeff Bezos. Mark Rocket joined Jaime Alem�n, Jesse Williams, Paul
Jeris, Gretchen Green and Amy Medina Jorge on board the RSS First Step - Blue
Origin's first of two human-rated New Shepard capsules - for a trip above the
K�rm�n Line, the 62-mile-high (100-kilometer) internationally recognized
boundary between Earth and space... Mark Rocket became the first New
Zealander to reach space on the mission. His connection to aerospace goes
beyond his apt name and today's flight; he's currently the CEO of Kea
Aerospace and previously helped lead Rocket Lab, a competing space launch
company to Blue Origin that sends most of its rockets up from New Zealand.
Alem�n, Williams and Jeris each traveled the world extensively before briefly
leaving the planet today. An attorney from Panama, Alem�n is now the first
person to have visited all 193 countries recognized by the United Nations,
traveled to the North and South Poles, and now, have been into space. For
Williams, an entrepreneur from Canada, Saturday's flight continued his record
of achieving high altitudes; he has summitted Mt. Everest and five of the
other six other highest mountains across the globe. "For about three minutes,
the six NS-32 crewmates experienced weightlessness," the article points out,
"and had an astronaut's-eye view of the planet..." On social media Blue
Origin notes it's their 12th human spaceflight, "and the 32nd flight of the
New Shepard program."

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