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Michael Strahan goes to space on Blue Origin mission

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Michael Strahan, Alan Shepard's daughter, and four others rocket to the edge of space

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business

Updated 12:12 PM ET, Sat December 11, 2021

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New York (CNN)Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, sent Good Morning America host Michael Strahan, the daughter of famed astronaut Alan Shepard, and four paying customers on a supersonic joy ride to the edge of space Saturday morning.

A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches on December 11, 2021, in West Texas near Van Horn. The NS-19 mission took Laura Shepard Churchley, eldest daughter of famed NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, Television talk show host Michael Strahan and paying passengers Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess into space.

The group blasted off aboard Blue Origin's suborbital space tourism rocket at 9:01 am CT from the company's launch facilities near the rural town of Van Horn, Texas, where Bezos owns a sprawling ranch, and took a supersonic, 10-minute flight that reached more than 60 miles above the Earth's surface before parachuting to a landing.

Strahan emerged beaming from the capsule where he was greeted by Bezos.

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