Inside the New Shepard capsule: adapting a suborbital rocket for a wheelchair user New Shepard has always been marketed as a relatively gentle ride to space, but flying a wheelchair user forced Blue ...

In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

The crew includes a physicist from Florida and a German aerospace engineer who could become the first person who uses a wheelchair to reach space. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, ...