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.

Paraplegic engineer Michaela Benthaus became the first wheelchair user to travel to space during a Blue Origin mission over the weekend

Blue Origin's new Shepard rocket sent six crew members into space. Among them, 33-year old Michaela Benthaus, the first person to use a wheelchair to fly into space!

Blue Origin flew Michaela Benthaus, an engineer to space on board the NS-37 flight. This is the first time a wheelchair user has crossed the Karman Line.

A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight.

Blue Origin has crossed a threshold that spaceflight has talked about for years but never actually reached: a person who uses a wheelchair has now traveled beyond the edge of space. The journey of aerospace engineer Michaela “Michi” Benthaus on the company’s New Shepard rocket turns a long‑promised ideal of inclusive exploration into a concrete,

A new boundary has been broken as Michaela Benthaus, a paraplegic engineer, became the first wheelchair user to float in space. “I never really thought that going on a spaceflight would be a real option for me because even as like a super healthy person,

Blue Origin made history Saturday, sending for the first time a person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an internationally recognized boundary of space that's 62 miles above Earth. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus,