Paraplegic German engineer takes short trip into space

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2025-12-20

New York (dpa) - Two Germans embarked on a short trip into space on Saturday with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' US space company Blue Origin. A live broadcast on the internet showed the New Shepard NS-37 rocket taking off from West Texas for an approximately 11-minute flight. It was the 16th trip for Bezos' space tourism company and the first such space trip with two Germans on board: former space engineer Hans Königsmann and wheelchair-user Michael......

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