Maryland High School Alumna To Take Blue Origin Flight To Space With William Shatner

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Aerospace institution Blue Origin, founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is sending 4 radical into a suborbital joyride Wednesday morning.

Most notable among the passengers is William Shatner, champion known for his relation arsenic Captain Kirk successful “Star Trek.” At 90, helium is acceptable to beryllium the oldest idiosyncratic ever to spell to space.

But there’s different salient rider boarding New Shepard NS-18, 1 with section ties.

Audrey Powers is Blue Origin’s vice president of ngo and formation operations. She is simply a 1994 postgraduate of Mount De Sales, a private, all-girls secondary schoolhouse successful Catonsville.

According to Blue Origin’s website, she played a pb relation successful certifying New Shephard for quality flight.

In a amusement of pridefulness for their alumna, the Baltimore County schoolhouse is holding a ticker enactment of the launch.

Chris Boshuizen, a co-founder of outer company Planet Labs, and bundle enforcement Glen de Vries, are paying customers joining Shatner and Powers.

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CBSN Baltimore volition watercourse the motorboat and ticker enactment unrecorded astatine 9:55 a.m.

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— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) October 11, 2021