{"id":140177,"date":"2022-06-05T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-born-woman-travels-to-space-with-blue-origin"},"modified":"2022-06-05T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:02:17","slug":"first-mexican-born-woman-travels-to-space-with-blue-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/first-mexican-born-woman-travels-to-space-with-blue-origin","title":{"rendered":"First Mexican-born woman travels to space with Blue Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-mexican-born-woman-travels-to-space-with-blue-origin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN \u2014 A rocket built by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a trek.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin\u2019s facilities in West Texas at 9:26 A.M ET, launching a group of six people to more than 62 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface \u2014 which is widely deemed to make the boundary of outer space \u2014 and giving them a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting to landing.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the passengers paid an undisclosed sum for their seats. But Katya Echazarreta, an engineer and science communicator from Guadalajara, Mexico, was selected by a nonprofit called <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceforhumanity.org\/apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space for Humanity<\/a> to join this mission from a group of thousands of applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u2014 A rocket built by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a trek. The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin\u2019s facilities in West Texas at 9:26 A.M ET, launching a group of six people to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}