The company launched "Star Trek" actor William Shatner and three others on New Shepard in October.īut Saturday's flight marked Blue Origin's first to carry a full six-person crew (the two previous flights carried only four each), with the space tourists dubbing themselves "The Original Six." This moniker is a nod to "The Original Seven" group of Mercury 7 astronauts selected by NASA in 1959, who were the agency's first spaceflyers.Īmong that NASA group was Alan Shepard, Churchley's father. Saturday's launch marked Blue Origin's third crewed flight. At the time, Strahan was reporting on the launch for Good Morning America. Strahan said he urged his crewmates to come back and watch a Blue Origin launch from the ground, something he did earlier this year when the company launched its first crewed New Shepard flight carrying Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark among its crew. "I know what I'm going to look like at 85," he concluded, joking. "The Gs, it's not a facelift but a face drop," Strahan continued, speaking of the forces of gravity his crew experienced during launch and landing. "OK, here's the thing," Strahan told a small group of people assembled near the spacecraft after landing, including Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. More: Blue Origin's launch with GMA anchor Michael Strahan explained He also had enthusiastic comments for onlookers moments after landing. It's really hard to describe it," Strahan said in a video with this Twitter post. Strahan's enthusiasm continued even after emerging from the New Shepard capsule RSS First Step that carries Blue Origin passengers to space. The live Blue Origin broadcast showed Strahan, a former NY Giants defensive end, giving an enthusiastic thumbs-up from the window while waiting for recovery crews, along with a large group of well-wishers and film crews, to approach the spacecraft in the desert near Van Horn. Four paying passengers rounded out the crew. Joining Strahan on the flight were Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of the late Alan Shepard, the first American to fly in space and the namesake of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. Good Morning America co-anchor and former NFL star Michael Strahan embraces Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, as Dylan Taylor, Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space after they flew into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard on Dec.
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