Blue Origin tourist crew thrilled by space flight

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, when its rocket vehicle lifted off from Launch Site One, the company's facility about 25 miles from the town of Van Horn. Echazarreta, a 26-year-old electrical and hardware engineer who is the first passenger sponsored by the nonprofit Space for Humanity and is one of the youngest women to fly to space.

Another crew member on the flight was civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha who was the second Brazilian to fly to space.