Katy Perry offered up a unique tour of the Blue Origin capsule before she began her historic journey into space. The singer, 40, was one of six passengers on board the all-female space mission, which ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty-two miles above the Earth, the thick layer of clouds that surrounded Michaela Benthaus gave way to darkness. She had just ...

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 ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

Benthaus is among six passengers selected to ride on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, scheduled to get off the ground from West Texas on its 37th spaceflight. The passengers of NS-37 would join 80 ...

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 ...