Last month, a German engineer became the first wheelchair user to blast into space. She took a 10-minute ride on a space company’s flight. The space company is called Blue Origin. Its New Shepard suborbital mission launched from the US state of Texas.
Michaela Benthaus is an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency. She was one of the passengers who crossed the internationally recognised boundary of space.
Benthaus uses a wheelchair. Her spinal cord was injured after an accident.
“If we want to be an inclusive society, we should be inclusive in every part,” she said.
Blue Origin has been offering these space tourism flights for years. The price is not public.
