Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the ...

Slated to fly on the NS-27 mission, the new booster topped with the capsule named the RSS Kármán Line is targeting liftoff at ...

It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...

In 2021, Bezos rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket above the Kármán line as part of the company’s first space tourism mission. One year earlier, in 2020, Bezos founded the Bezos Earth Fund ...

such as the Polaris Dawn’s civilian mission or when Blue Origin sends up paying customers to break the Kármán line to become astronauts — as these operations are far different from NASA’s, medically ...

However, the Karman line is recognised by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) as the edge of space. It's 100 kilometres (about 62 miles) above sea level. Blue Origin went through ...

Its current product, New Shepard, is a toy. (It cannot reach orbit. It merely carries rich tourists above the Karman line, 100km up, which is the official boundary of outer space.) But that will ...