Blue Origin Launches 6 People on 5th Space Flight

This undated file illustration shows the capsule that the Blue Origin company aims to take tourists into space. Blue Origin via AP

Blue Origin successfully completed its fifth human spaceflight that sent six people to suborbital space on Saturday, including Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born woman to fly into space.

The New Shepard program mission called NS-21, launched from the company’s West Texas site at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT), when its rocket vehicle lifted off from Launch Site One, the company’s facility about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the town of Van Horn.