The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard is set for a ride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin commercial rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.
The Launch Site One sign is shown after Blue Origin delayed, for weather, its next New Shepard astro-tourism flight with an all-civilian crew of six, including two non-paying guests of honor,"Good Morning America" co-anchor and former NFL star Michael Strahan, and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space for whom the New Shepard spacecraft is named from Launch Site One in West Texas, Texas, US, December 8, 2021.
They will be flying aboard the crew capsule of a fully autonomous, six-story-tall spacecraft dubbed New Shepard, designed to soar to an altitude of about 350,000 feet before falling back to Earth for a parachute landing on the desert floor. The spacecraft itself is named for Alan Shepard, who in 1961 made history as the second person, and the first American, to travel into space — a 15-minute suborbital flight as one of NASA's original 'Mercury Seven' astronauts.
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