{"id":227575,"date":"2025-12-21T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/for-the-1st-time-ever-a-person-who-uses-a-wheelchair-will-fly-to-space"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:06:11","slug":"for-the-1st-time-ever-a-person-who-uses-a-wheelchair-will-fly-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/for-the-1st-time-ever-a-person-who-uses-a-wheelchair-will-fly-to-space","title":{"rendered":"For the 1st time ever, a person who uses a wheelchair will fly to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-1st-time-ever-a-person-who-uses-a-wheelchair-will-fly-to-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, an internationally recognized boundary of space that\u2019s 62 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>On its next mission, a Blue Origin <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blueorigin.com%2Fnew-shepard&data=05%7C02%7CLeah.Sarnoff%40abc.com%7C08c6139d20434de7924c08de3dc62d96%7C56b731a8a2ac4c32bf6b616810e913c6%7C1%7C0%7C639016118527088067%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QSMwYwCrF72TSwT3EbS6hdVn8O4uR6%2BFFV3u4pcFsak%3D&reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">New Shepard<\/a> rocket will take Michaela \u201cMichi\u201d Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer who suffered a spinal cord injury after a mountain biking accident, along with five others, on a journey past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line. New Shepard rockets are fully reusable spacecraft that Blue Origin says require less maintenance between flights, saving money and reducing waste.<\/p>\n<p>The NS-37 mission will be the 16th human flight for Blue Origin, which has taken 86 people \u2014 80 individuals \u2014 above the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, an internationally recognized boundary of space that\u2019s 62 miles above Earth. On its next mission, a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket will take Michaela \u201cMichi\u201d Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer who suffered a spinal cord [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227575","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}