Blue Origin’s New Shepard flights are brief, up-and-down trips, though they travel more than 62 miles above Earth, which some scientists consider to mark the edge of outer space. Suborbital flights differ greatly from orbital flights of the type most of us think of when we think of spaceflight. The flight followed a similar profile to Shatner’s flight and Bezos before him, spending less time off the ground than it takes most people to get to work in the morning. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. Strahan spent 15 season in the NFL, all of them with the New York Giants, where he won the Super Bowl with them in 2007. Strahan announced his plans to join the flight during a segment on Good Morning America last month, noting that Blue Origin had him measured for his flight suit and had him test out one of the New Shepard capsule’s seats to ensure he’d fit. There's a long history of failed attempts to put American journalists in space. Blue Origin said that Strahan and Shepard Churchley were “honorary guests,” much like the last celebrity Blue Origin sent to the edge of space, William Shatner, and did not have to pay their way. Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, whose father Alan Shepard went on a suborbital flight in 1961 and later walked on the moon, rode alongside investors Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick, and Lane Bess, as well as Bess’ adult child, Cameron Bess - all of whom were paying customers. I know what I’m going to look like at 85.” “The Gs…it’s not a face lift, it’s a face drop. Strahan emerged beaming from the capsule where he was greeted by Bezos. The group blasted off aboard Blue Origin’s suborbital space tourism rocket at 9:01 am CT from the company’s launch facilities near the rural town of Van Horn, Texas, where Bezos owns a sprawling ranch, and took a supersonic, 10-minute flight that reached more than 60 miles above the Earth’s surface before parachuting to a landing. The NS-19 mission took Laura Shepard Churchley, eldest daughter of famed NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, Television talk show host Michael Strahan and paying passengers Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess into space. A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches on December 11, 2021, in West Texas near Van Horn.
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