Blue Origin successfully completed its fifth human spaceflight that sent six people to suborbital space on Saturday, including Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born woman to fly into space.
The New Shepard program mission called NS-21, launched from the company’s West Texas site at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT), when its rocket vehicle lifted off from Launch Site One, the company’s facility about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the town of Van Horn.
Echazarreta, A 26-year-old electrical and hardware engineer joined the international crew for the less than 10-minute flight launched by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
She is the first passenger sponsored by the nonprofit Space for Humanity and is one of the youngest women to fly to space….