‘This is heaven!’: Watch Michael Strahan and crew float in space in this Blue Origin launch video

With tiny footballs, cheers and wide smiles, Blue Origin’s biggest crew of space tourists yet clearly had a blast on their trip to space this weekend.  Blue Origin launched the six space tourists — a team that included former NFL star and “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan — on a New Shepard rocket from … Read more

Watch live today: Blue Origin launching GMA host Michael Strahan and crew on New Shepard

Blue Origin will launch its third space tourist flight on Saturday, Dec. 11, and you can watch it live here, courtesy of the company. Liftoff is set for 9:45 a.m. EST (1445 GMT).  Live updates: Michael Strahan’s Blue Origin Launch on New Shepard The Blue Origin New Shepard NS-19 mission will launch Good Morning America … Read more

How to watch Blue Origin launch GMA host Michael Strahan and crew to space Saturday

Blue Origin’s third crewed mission is scheduled to launch on Saturday (Dec. 11).  The company’s New Shepard spacecraft will send GMA host and former NFL star Michael Strahan and five other people to suborbital space on the mission, which is known as NS-19. Liftoff is targeted for 9:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) on Saturday, though … Read more

SpaceX’s all-civilian Inspiration4 astronaut crew flew a meteorite back to space (briefly)

After spending 50,000 years on Earth, a meteorite got the chance to visit space again for almost three days, during the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission in September. Pilot Sian Proctor shared a video on Twitter Friday (Dec. 10) showing a fragment of the immense Canyon Diablo space rock that slammed into northern Arizona, forming Barringer Crater (better … Read more