Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. European Space Agency engineer Michi Benthaus and Hans Koenigsmann, former executive at SpaceX, are pictured during training at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

A Blue Origin rocket will soon launch carrying an unconventional passenger in a history-making moment made possible by a high-profile former employee of the company’s biggest rival. Michaela Benthaus, ...