Washington: After two successful missions, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space firm Blue Origin is ready for another flight on December 9th.
The crew will include two guests of honor – ‘Good Morning America’ co-anchor Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, who was the first American to fly to space.
The others are four paying clients – space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, Bess Ventures founder Lane Bess, and Cameron Bess. Lane and Cameron Bess will become the first parent-child couple to fly into space, the company said.
Blue Origin’s kicked off its second human flight into space on October 13, with original Star Trek captain James T. Kirk (actor William Shatner) becoming the oldest man ever to travel to space, along with NASA engineer Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, co-founder of the software company Medidata, and Audrey Powers, vice president of missions and aviation operations.
For the project, Blue Origin partnered with the space agency Sierra Space, a subsidiary of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering Solutions and Arizona State University.
Source: Telangana Today