New Shepard NS-25 was Blue Origin's seventh human flight to space. PHOTO: In this March 31, 2022, file photo, a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches from Launch Site One in West Texas. He was 90 years and 206 days old when he flew on a previous Blue Origin flight on Oct. 13, 2021. Blue Origin travels just above the Karman Line, about 62 miles above Earth and NASA's definition of space, while Glenn went 100 miles higher on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. Blue Origin launches historic flight to space originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

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