Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 45 minutes ago
collectSPACE.com — Sixty years after watching her father launch on the first American spaceflight, Laura Shepard Churchley is ready to follow in his footsteps.
The eldest daughter of the late Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, Churchley has been confirmed to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle as a member of its third human spaceflight and first six-person crew. Scheduled to take flight from the company's West Texas launch site on Dec. 9, 2021, the NS-19 mission will also include former professional football player and "Good Morning America" (GMA) anchor Michael Strahan, who will become the first Black person to launch aboard a suborbital spaceflight.
The NS-19 crew, including four additional paying passengers — Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick and Lane and Cameron Bass — was announced by Blue Origin on Tuesday (Nov. 23).
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collectSPACE.com — Sixty years after watching her father launch on the first American spaceflight, Laura Shepard Churchley is ready to follow in his footsteps.
The eldest daughter of the late Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, Churchley has been confirmed to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle as a member of its third human spaceflight and first six-person crew. Scheduled to take flight from the company's West Texas launch site on Dec. 9, 2021, the NS-19 mission will also include former professional football player and "Good Morning America" (GMA) anchor Michael Strahan, who will become the first Black person to launch aboard a suborbital spaceflight.
The NS-19 crew, including four additional paying passengers — Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick and Lane and Cameron Bass — was announced by Blue Origin on Tuesday (Nov. 23).
Continue reading: collectspace.com/news/news-112321a-blue-origin-ns19-shepard-strahan.html
Video credit: Blue Origin. Used with permission.
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Meet Orion: The Crew Module
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![Space Station and Space Shuttle Together in Orbit [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REQCqHtAqno/mqdefault.jpg "Space Station and Space Shuttle Together in Orbit [HD]
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Unprecedented video shows the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade.
On May 23, 2011 the Soyuz TMA-20 was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees. This move allowed Nespoli to capture high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station.
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