Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos' rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America's first astronaut. Bezos, who flew to space in July in the same capsule, accompanied the six passengers to the launch pad near Van Horn. "It's kind of fun for me to say that an original Shepard will fly on the New Shepard," she said in a preflight Blue Origin video. Bezos, who founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, was on the debut launch in July. Blue Origin dedicated Saturday's launch to Glen de Vries, who launched into space with Shatner in October, but died one month later in a plane crash.

Source: thestar December 11, 2021 22:27 UTC