Sie war gerade die erste Rollstuhlfahrerin, die ins All reiste
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/20/science/blue-origin-koenigsmann-benthaus-wheelchair?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
Sie war gerade die erste Rollstuhlfahrerin, die ins All reiste
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/20/science/blue-origin-koenigsmann-benthaus-wheelchair?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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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 demarcation for outer space that lies 100 kilometers above sea level.
Her history-making trip aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule took flight on Saturday morning, lifting off from the company’s launch facilities near Van Horn, Texas.
Read more: [https://cnn.it/3KEHZI8](https://cnn.it/3KEHZI8)
This is very cool for wheelchair users!
God damn that must be some wheelchair!
This was a sub orbital flight. By some definitions this does not count as reaching space.
„Space“.
Orbital tourism can’t come soon enough.
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