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, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European ******* e Agency, will be aboard the mission, known as NS-37, and become the first wheelchair user to travel to ******* e. The unprecedented opportunity came together after encounter between Benthaus and Hans Koenigsmann, a former executive at ******* eX — Blue Origin’s chief competitor.
Koenigsmann, like Benthaus, is German, and the two of
Michaela Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European ******* e Agency, will be aboard the mission, known as NS-37, and become the first wheelchair user to travel to ******* e. The unprecedented opportunity came together after encounter between Benthaus and Hans Koenigsmann, a former executive at ******* eX — Blue Origin’s chief competitor.
Koenigsmann, like Benthaus, is German, and the two of
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