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CATONSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — Former Mount de Sales Academy teacher Pat Bettridge watched successful awe arsenic 1 of the students she taught years agone launched into abstraction aboard Wednesday’s Blue Origin flight.
“She did it and I americium truthful blessed for her,” said Bettridge.
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The company’s vice president of ngo and formation operations, Audrey Powers, flew alongside the celebrated “Star Trek” histrion William Shatner and 2 different unit members.
Powers sat successful Mrs. Bettridge’s English classes backmost successful the aboriginal 1990s astatine the Catonsville school. And Bettridge said she remembers her precise fondly.
“She was an outstanding intellect, arsenic a pupil arsenic an athlete,” she said.
Powers spent 10 minutes successful formation aboard the rocket called New Shepard.
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It was the 2nd crewed ngo for Blue Origin and powers played a large relation successful getting disconnected the ground, which was a imagination travel existent for her, said Bettridge.
“I support reasoning backmost to erstwhile she was 13 and said I privation to beryllium an astronaut.”
Many astatine Mount de Sales contiguous besides watched Powers blast disconnected successful the rocket during a motorboat ticker party.
A erstwhile classmate, Julie Gilless, was thrilled to spot her yet execute what she’d moving truthful hard toward.
“This is truthful exciting,” she said. “No 1 deserves it more.”
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Both Gilless and Mrs. Bettridge person been successful interaction with Powers and person been wishing her well.
Stetson Miller
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