Blue Origin’s 37th New Shepard rocket launch was set to lift off Thursday from West Texas, but it was scrubbed at the last minute.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a German-born aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency who sustained a spinal cord injury in a mountain biking accident in 2018.

Another six lucky few are about to soar high above Earth on a Blue Origin rocket. Here's where in Texas to see the launch.

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, who is paralyzed from the waist down, flew to space on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket. She launched from West Texas.

Blue Origin completed a historic suborbital flight, sending the first wheelchair user to space and back aboard its New Shepard rocket.

Blue Origin will launch its first suborbital rocket launch of 2025 today — and attempt a wild spin trick to mimic the moon's gravity during the flight — but if you want to see it live, you'll need to know when and where to tune in. An uncrewed New ...