Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle parachutes down to Earth at 11:38 a.m. EDT on Oct. 5 after a successful in-flight escape system safety test. Read our full story and watch the video here.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

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 ...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common ...

Blue Origin is targeting liftoff on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 8, from its Texas facility. Blue Origin will provide a webcast of the launch beginning about 30 minutes ahead of the scheduled ...

Six people have been announced as the next group of passengers who will make a short trip to the edge of space on Blue Origin ...