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Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line

By Andrew Jones Published

Blue Origin has announced the six crewmembers for its next space tourism flight. One of them will become the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line.

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Former cryptocurrency company plans reality TV competition to pick next Blue Origin spaceflight crew

By Elizabeth Howell Published

A reality television series may follow a company's efforts to send the 1st Nigerian and others to space aboard a Blue Origin vehicle.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin could soon launch Nigeria's 1st-ever space tourist

By Andrew Jones Published

A Nigerian could soon make it to space for the first time ever, via Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin.

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'This was a life-changing experience:' 1st Black astronaut candidate exults after suborbital launch (video)

By Mike Wall Published

Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight got to live out his long-delayed spaceflight dream with a suborbital launch this weekend. Here's what he had to say about it.

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Blue Origin launches 1st Black astronaut candidate, age 90, and 5 space tourists on New Shepard rocket (video)

By Mike Wall Published

Blue Origin sent six people to the final frontier today (May 19) on the company's first crewed spaceflight since August 2022.

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Six people are displayed in two rows, from left to right, the top and bottom rows feature a man wearing a red toboggin and holding a dog, a black and white image of a man in a tux, a man with a mustache and glasses wearing a black shirt, a bald man in a red sweater, a woman with a silky scarf by a large body of water, and a bearded man with dark hair and glasses in a black shirt.
Blue Origin will launch these 6 space tourists on May 19, its 1st crewed mission since 2022

By Josh Dinner Published

Blue Origin plans to launch six people — including the United States' first-ever black astronaut candidate — on a suborbital spaceflight this weekend.

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Blue Origin targeting May 19 for 1st crewed spaceflight since 2022

By Mike Wall Published

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (May 19) for the six-person NS-25, the company's first crewed spaceflight since August 2022.

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Two people in spacesuits walk the surface of a rust colored planet. The astronaut in the foreground looks at something far away, in wonder. The astronaut to the right and slight behind leans on a rock formation and holds a hammer. A many-wheeled rover is parked behind them and in the distance, some habitat modules.
This time, we take it from no one: Why opening the High Frontier of space can be different (op-ed)

By Rick Tumlinson Published

The coming settlement of the High Frontier doesn’t have to be a repeat of the violent conquests and colonization of history. We will not take space from anyone, and we can give it to everyone.

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Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flight

By Mike Wall Published

The six-person crew of Blue Origin's seventh human spaceflight includes Ed Dwight, who was picked in 1961 to be the nation's first black astronaut candidate.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket rises on launch pad ahead of debut liftoff (photo)

By Elizabeth Howell Published

Blue Origin's first New Glenn rocket has gone vertical at its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned debut liftoff later this year.

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