She went aloft early Saturday aboard the New Shepard spacecraft.
San Diego City College alumna Katya Echazarreta became the first Mexico-born woman to travel into space early Saturday, soaring into the ether aboard a spaceship called New Shepard.
The sub-orbital flight ended roughly five minutes later when the white, thimble-shaped capsule softly parachuted to the ground, kicking up a large cloud of orange dust. Her fellow passengers included Victor Vescovo, Jaison Robinson, Victor Correa Hespanha, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick.The crew was not immediately available for interviews. But Echazarreta, who previously worked as a flight engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talked about the mission during a message broadcast by the Blue Origin space tourism company, which staged the mission.
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