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 ...

Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight is poised to mark a turning point for space tourism, with a wheelchair user preparing to join the crew on a suborbital trip that will cross the boundary of space.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. The flight took off at ...

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 ...