{"id":1111762,"date":"2021-12-12T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111762"},"modified":"2021-12-12T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:13:51","slug":"michael-strahan-flies-to-space-with-astronauts-daughter-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-strahan-flies-to-space-with-astronauts-daughter-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Strahan Flies to Space with Astronaut\u2019s Daughter: \u2018Wow!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-strahan-flies-to-space-with-astronauts-daughter-wow%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1111762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos\u2019 rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America\u2019s first astronaut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cTOUCHDOWN has a new meaning now!!!\u201d he tweeted after landing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket blasted off from West Texas, sending the capsule on a 10-minute flight with the two VIP guests and four paying customers. Their automated capsule soared to an altitude of 66 miles (106 kilometers), providing a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting into the desert. The booster also came back to land successfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">It was five minutes and 50 miles (187 kilometers) shorter than Alan Shepard\u2019s Mercury flight from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961. His eldest daughter, Laura Shepard Churchley, took along a tiny piece of his Freedom 7 capsule as well as mementos from his Apollo 14 moonshot. She also packed some golf balls; her dad hit a couple on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Blue Origin&#039;s latest space passengers from left Laura Shepard Churchley, shares a laugh with Michael Strahan, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess, and Evan Dick during interviews after their space shot at near Van Horn, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\"><em>Blue Origin\u2019s latest space passengers from left Laura Shepard Churchley, shares a laugh with Michael Strahan, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess, and Evan Dick during interviews after their space shot at near Van Horn, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">A co-host of ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d Strahan bubbled over with excitement in updates for the show all week. He took along his Super Bowl ring and retired New York Giants jersey No. 92. Bezos stashed a football on board that will go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">As soon as he emerged from the capsule, Strahan said he wanted to go again. But Bezos joked he\u2019d have to buy his own ticket next time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">In a video he posted later, Strahan called the experience surreal and unbelievable: \u201cWow! That\u2019s all I can say. Wow!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">At the launch complex near Van Horn, Bezos had \u201cLight this candle\u201d painted on the launch tower\u2019s bridge, borrowing from Alan Shepard\u2019s famous gripe from inside Freedom 7 as the delays mounted: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you fix your little problem and light this candle?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1000-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Parachutes carry the Blue Origin&#039;s New Shepard capsule to the ground after liftoff from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\"><em>Parachutes carry the Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard capsule to the ground after liftoff from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Shepard Churchley \u2014 who volunteered for Blue Origin\u2019s third passenger flight \u2014 borrowed her late father\u2019s phrase, yelling \u201cLet\u2019s light this candle!\u201d while awaiting takeoff. Fierce wind held up her flight for two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">She heads the board of trustees for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cI thought about Daddy coming down and thought, gosh he didn\u2019t even get to enjoy any of what I\u2019m getting to enjoy,\u201d Shepard Churchley said following touchdown. \u201cHe was working. He had to do it himself. I went up for the ride!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Saturday\u2019s launch marks the last one this year by private U.S. companies as space tourism finally takes off. Virgin Galactic kicked it off in July, sending up its billionaire founder, Richard Branson, followed by Blue Origin and SpaceX. So many are flying that the Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday it will no longer designate who is a commercial astronaut or give out wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Bezos, who founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, was on his company\u2019s debut launch in July. The second, in October, included actor William Shatner \u2014 Captain James Kirk of TV\u2019s original \u201cStar Trek.\u201d The late Leonard Nimoy\u2019s daughter sent up a necklace with a \u201cVulcan Salute\u201d charm on Saturday\u2019s flight, in honor of the show\u2019s original Mr. Spock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Among the the four space tourists paying unspecified millions each were the first parent-child combo: financier Lane Bess and his son Cameron. Also flying: Voyager Space chairman and CEO Dylan Taylor and investor Evan Dick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Blue Origin dedicated Saturday\u2019s launch to Glen de Vries, who launched into space with Shatner, but died one month later in a plane crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos\u2019 rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America\u2019s first astronaut. \u201cTOUCHDOWN has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}