Van Horn (US): The oldest daughter of Astronot Astronot Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of the shuttle in the space of Jeff Bezos’ Blue from Rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after his late father who was famous for the NASA suborbital flying in the past.
Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a school child when his father first shot into space, was one of six passengers bent in the new Shepard spacecraft cottage when appointed from the launch site outside the city of Texas.
Soccer stars and TV celebrities Michael Strahan are also part of the crew.
The crew capsule was brought up on a spacecraft that was entirely autonomous, six-story and separate from the rocket amplifier when it jumped to a height of around 350,000 feet before falling back to earth, down under the parachute canopy.
All flights, from the elevator to Touchdown, last a little more than 10 minutes, with a crew experiencing a few minutes without weights.
“It’s not real,” said Strahan after appearing from the capsule.
Bezos arrived to greet and embrace the new citizen astronauts printed when they emerged from capsules, all smiles.
He then pinned astronaut wings to each of their collars.
When he chatted with Bezos, Churchley told his miracle to see the darkness of space from the capsule.
The spacecraft itself was named after Alan Shepard, who in 1961 made history as the second person, and the first American, to travel into space – suborbital flights 15 minutes.
A decade later, Shepard walked in the moon as the commander of the Apollo 14 mission, with the famous hit two golf balls on the surface of the moon.