Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched an all-female celebrity crew into space on April 14, 2025, led by Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez. Joining Sanchez were singer Katy Perry, CBS anchor Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, and scientist-activist Amanda Nguyen. The 10-minute flight aboard the New Shepard rocket from West […]
Veteran journalist Gayle King is set to embark on an historic spaceflight with Blue Origin’s first all-women crew this spring. A Star-Studded Crew King will be joined by: Katy Perry (pop superstar) Lauren Sánchez (journalist and philanthropist) Aisha Bowe (former NASA rocket scientist) Amanda Nguyen (civil rights activist) Kerianne Flynn (film producer) Together, they will […]
Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally journeyed to space at the age of 90, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin. Dwight, an Air Force pilot championed by President John F. Kennedy as a NASA astronaut candidate, wasn’t selected for the 1963 class. On Sunday, Dwight experienced a few minutes of weightlessness […]
Ed Dwight, the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after President John F. Kennedy appointed […]
NASA plans to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by crashing it into the ocean at the end of 2030, marking the end of its over three-decade tenure orbiting Earth. The agency is collaborating with private companies—Axiom Space, Voyager Space, and Blue Origin—to develop a new space station that will be privately owned, built, and […]
If you didn’t know us regular people are now traveling to space. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket has two trips to space in the history books. The last mission which took place at the beginning of October included actor William Shatner. Shatner is the oldest person to travel to space at 90 years of age. […]
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