India, April 14 -- An all-female crew is set to fly to the space aboard Blue Origin's space tourism rocket Monday.
The Blue Origin sub-orbital spaceflight mission is scheduled to launch from Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:30 AM ET.
The Jeff Bezos-owned company's 11th human flight is scheduled to last just 11 minutes, during which the rocket will travel more than 100 kilometers above Earth.
New Shepard astronauts ascend toward space at more than three times the speed of sound. They pass the Karman line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, before unbuckling to float weightless. The crew returns gently with a parachute-assisted soft landing.
There are no pilots aboard the fully autonomous spacecraft, leaving the space tou...