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Blue Origin to send 1st wheelchair user to space

Blue Origin safely launches wheelchair user to space and back

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 weightlessness more than 65 miles above Earth.

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Blue Origin breaks the accessibility barrier by sending the first wheelchair user to space

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Blue Origin sends person using a wheelchair to space for the 1st time

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She just became the first wheelchair user to travel to space

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 demarcati...

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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

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Moment first wheelchair user in space lands back on Earth

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NASA's new boss says the race is on between SpaceX and Blue Origin to build a moon lander

Jared Isaacman has poured fuel on the new space race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, saying NASA will pick whichever lunar lander is ready first.

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What's in 'industrial wastewater' Blue Origin sends to Indian River Lagoon?

What's exactly in Blue Origin's 'industrial wastewater' is bound by government rules that require what's tested for. But there's likely more in there.

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Cape Canaveral considers Blue Origin public hearing with Florida officials over wastewater dumping

The city of Cape Canaveral will decide whether to send a letter to the state, demanding a public hearing over whether to renew a permit for Blue Origin that would allow it to dump discharge waters that flow to the Indian River Lagoon.