The eldest daughter of pioneering U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.
Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space, was one of six passengers buckled into the cabin of Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft as it lifted off from a launch site outside the west Texas town of Van Horn.
The launch vehicle's reusable rocket booster flew itself back to Earth and touched down in an open field of scrub a short distance from where the capsule landed moments later. As she chatted with Bezos, Churchley briefly recounted her wonder at seeing the blackness of space from inside the capsule. The spacecraft itself is named for Alan Shepard, who in 1961 made history as the second person, and the first American, to travel into space - a 15-minute suborbital flight as one of NASA's original "Mercury Seven" astronauts. A decade later, Shepard walked on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission, famously hitting two golf galls on the lunar surface.Churchley was one of two honorary, non-paying guest passengers chosen by Blue Origin for Saturday's flight.
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