Blue Origin launches first wheelchair user into space

Blue Origin made history on Saturday morning when Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, became the first wheelchair user to travel past the Kármán Line. The milestone flight took place aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule, which lifted off from the company’s launch facilities near Van Horn, Texas.

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