VAN HORN, Texas - Blue Origin's third human rocket launch will lift into space Saturday, and former NFL player and TV personality Michael Strahan, along with five others, with be on board for the ride of a lifetime.
The suborbital flight NS-19, courtesy of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, is scheduled to launch just before 9:45 a.m. ET from West Texas on New Shepard — the company’s reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts to the internationally-recognized boundary of space.According to Steve Lanius, NS-19 lead flight director, this is New Shepard’s 19th mission to space, and it’s the first time with six people on the flight. "The mission operations team has confirmed in our flight radius review earlier this week that the.