New Shepard carries crew members above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, where they experience several minutes of weightlessness before making their descent back to Earth.
The space company was scheduled to launch six customers on a 10-minute trip to low-gravity in the New Shepard rocket and capsule from its launch site in Van Horn, Texas.
On March 31, Jim Kitchen ’87, a professor of the practice of strategy and entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, was part of the six-person crew of Blue Origin’s latest flight to space.