Blue Origin takes famed astronaut's daughter to space

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3 年前

Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space in a famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.

He was the second person and first American to travel in space.

Sixty years later and Churchley was one of six passengers lifting off from a launch site in Texas in a spacecraft named after her father.

Churchley was one of two honorary, non-paying guest passengers chosen by Blue Origin for Saturday's flight.

The other is Michael Strahan, 50, a retired National Football League star and co-anchor of ABC television's "Good Morning America" show.