Blue Origin’s flight has been delayed by two days due to bad weather forecast involving the daughter of the first American to travel to space, the company said on Wednesday.
The flight was originally scheduled for Thursday, but due to wind forecast for both that day and Friday, it will now aim to take off from West Texas at 8:45 a.m. (1445 GMT) on Saturday.
Laura Shepard Churchley, whose father Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space in 1961, will be one of six passengers on the third crewed flight of Jeff Bezos’ space company.
The rocket is actually called New Shepard in honor of the late Shepard.
Television personality Michael Strahan, a former American football player who co-hosts “Good Morning America,” will be a guest on the trip—a roughly 10-minute journey to the internationally recognized boundary of space, and back down again. .
The other four crew members are paying clients: space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, Bess Ventures founder Lane Bass and Cameron Bass.
Lane and Cameron Base will become the first parent-child pair to fly into space.
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