In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a ...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus celebrates after going to space on Blue Origin’s NS-37 suborbital flight Dec. 20. Credit: Blue Origin webcast WASHINGTON — Blue Origin flew its final New Shepard suborbital ...

A wheelchair user will reach space next week for the first time ever, if all goes according to plan. Blue Origin announced today (Dec. 11) that it's targeting Dec. 18 for its NS-37 mission, which will ...

A man in a wheelchair was killed early Sunday after he was struck by a car while crossing West Flamingo Road, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release. The crash occurred at about ...

Recently, while promoting her new album, Lux, Rosalía recorded a TikTok Live that shows her in her car, tearing through the night-slicked streets of Madrid, blasting Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro on her ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

Jerod Nieder runs his social media accounts under the moniker ‘Positively Paralyzed’, an ode to his mindset and his condition that he lives in after a Dec. 2011 accident on vacation in Mexico. His ...

Dec. 18, 2011, was the day Jerod Nieder entered an entirely new life as a member of the wheelchair community. On vacation with family, Nieder was excited to get into the turquoise waters of the ...

Maintaining core strength and stability is important for wheelchair users. Routine core work may help promote trunk stability, reduce pain, and increase mobility. Your core is the cylinder of muscles ...