Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday, resuming its centerpiece space tourism business for the first time since its suborbital New Shepard rocket was grounded in 2022.
“I am ecstatic,” Ed Dwight, who at age 90 years and eight months became the oldest person in space, said upon landing.
Mr. Dwight and the other passengers, seated in a gumdrop-shaped capsule atop the rocket, were launched from Blue Origin facilities near the remote desert town of Van Horn. The rocket separated from the capsule, which then ascended further beyond the boundary of Earth’s atmosphere to 65.7 miles, while the booster returned to land as planned....
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