Alumna Aisha Bowe Ready to Launch on Historic All-Women Space Flight
Blue Origin is set to launch their 11th human space mission on April 14, 2025.
An alumna of both the U-M Department of Aerospace Engineering, and the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Aisha Bowe, is set to go to space on the first-ever all-women Blue Origin New Shepard’s Crewed NS-31 flight, scheduled to launch on April 14, 2025. This historic flight will be Blue Origin’s 11th human space mission that will cross the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, 62 miles (100 km) above Earth.
Not only is this a historic flight for Blue Origin but also for U-M alumni from around the world. Bowe is the first female U-M alumna and sixth Black woman to make this journey to space. This achievement comes 30 years after NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47.
This content is excerpted from the original article from U-M Aerospace Engineering written by Lily Lewis.