Blue Origin Resumes Space Tourism Flights Today With 90-Year-Old On Board
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Ticket prices are a well-guarded secret, but guests like Ed Dwight -- whose seat was sponsored by the nonprofit Space for Humanity -- ride for free.
Blue Origin is set to fly adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, reigniting competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold.
Six people including Black sculptor and former Air Force pilot Ed Dwight, who was controversially spurned by NASA's astronaut corps in the 1960s, will blast off at around 8:30 am local time (1330 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas.
Dwight -- at 90 years, 8 months, and 10 days -- is set to become the oldest person to go to space, narrowly pipping Star Trek actor William Shatner, who was almost two months younger when he launched with Blue Origin in 2021.
