Day 3579: Survival

"Survival": photo, digital collage, ink drawing.

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A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey. The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin’s facilities in West Texas at 9:26am ET, vaulting a group of six people to more than 62 miles above the Earth’s surface — which is widely deemed to make the boundary of outer space — and giving them a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting to landing.

 

 Most of the passengers paid an undisclosed sum for their seats. But Katya Echazarreta, an engineer and science communicator from Guadalajara, Mexico, was selected by a nonprofit called Space for Humanity to join this mission from a pool of thousands of applicants. The organization’s goal is to send “exceptional leaders” to space and allow them to experience the overview effect, a phenomenon frequently reported by astronauts who say that viewing the Earth from space give them a profound shift in perspective.

At 17, she was her family’s breadwinner on a McDonald’s salary. Now she’s gone into space. Katya Echazarreta, 27,  is a UCLA engineering alumna and Science Show host in Big Machine Productions. She has been in the headline recently as she was one of the 7,000 applicants to join a diverse international crew along with five others to fly to space from Texas atop a New Shepard rocket for a 10-minute flight. She became the first Mexico-born woman to fly to space. see a 2 minute video of take off, here.

As for her online presence, she has a verified Instagram account with 83.2k followers. She is also active on Twitter. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.

 

 

Update ...

Best Friends?

 

I was talking with Grandhunk #3 at lunch last month and we covered  a lot of topics. One was about his really good friend, Connor, his best friends since grade school. His family moved to Texas before high school, but the boys still visit each other for a week each summer. GH #3 said 'we don't text or talk much through the year, but when we are together it's like he never left."  I nodded as I have several friends where we share that same thing. What a gift! A friendship where no tabs are kept on who did what last, just goof friends glad to be together again. I am hoping you have this too? 

 

 

 

A fun 3-minute video, new records, here.

 

Just because ...

 

King Vulture

 

Smiles for Tuesday ...

 

 

 

 

    

 

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