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Blue Origin sends world travelers on brief space odyssey
Six well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket ship to go where they’ve never gone before: the edge of space. The 10-minute mission lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:39 a.m. CT (6:39 a.m. PT) today
cosmiclog.com/2025/05/31/blue-
#GeekWire #BlueOrigin #NewShepard #Space #SpaceTourism #SuborbitalSpaceflight

Blue Origin New Shepard rocket ascending from launch pad
Cosmic Log · Blue Origin sends world travelers on brief space odysseySix well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket ship to go where they’ve never gone before: the edge of space. The 10-minute mission lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based company…

So, I’ve been thinking about the #BlueOrigin “all-female flight” a month ago, and here’s my take:

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly solo in space in 1963 on Vostok 6, and she did it on old Soviet hardware, and at the age of just twenty-six, she is still the youngest woman to have done so to this day. Also, she married a fellow cosmonaut. They had a child, and that child became the first in the world to have parents who both went to space.

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#NASA is considering launching rockets to #Mars 🔴 next year. #SpaceX’s #Starship is not the only contender for the trip. #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn is already contracted to send two small #satellites 🛰️ to Mars politico.com/news/2025/05/07/n

#US 🇺🇸#Italy 🇮🇹 cooperation for "two Mars Missions in 📆 2026 and 2028" whitehouse.gov/briefings-state