内容来源：https://www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-origin-first-wheelchair-user-space-2/

内容总结：

蓝色起源成功发射新谢泼德号火箭 首位轮椅使用者进入太空

美国蓝色起源公司（Blue Origin）于北京时间12月19日晚间成功执行其新谢泼德号（New Shepard）亚轨道飞行任务NS-37，将六名乘客送入太空。本次飞行的特殊意义在于，乘客中包括首位凭借轮椅行动的航天员——来自欧洲空间局的德国工程师米夏埃拉·“米奇”·本特豪斯，这标志着商业航天向更广泛人群开放迈出了重要一步。

任务于美国中部时间上午8时15分从得克萨斯州西部发射场升空。此前一天因系统检查异常而推迟的发射，今日得以顺利执行。这是新谢泼德号火箭第37次飞行，也是第16次载人任务，目前已累计将86人送至距地100公里以上的卡门线（国际公认的太空边界）。

33岁的本特豪斯自幼怀有航天梦想，但2018年因山地自行车事故导致脊髓损伤，一度认为太空之旅无望。2022年，她通过致力于为残障人士开拓航天通道的“天文通道”（AstroAccess）项目体验了失重飞行，重燃希望。她在飞行后表示：“这感觉是重要的一步，因为面向残障人士的太空旅行仍处于早期阶段。我希望这能激励航天行业转变观念，为更多像我一样的人创造机会。我可能是第一个，但绝不想是最后一个。”

为提升设施无障碍水平，蓝色起源已进行多年改进，如在七层发射塔加装电梯。公司内部还设有以已故物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金命名的“新霍金”资源小组，推动相关工作。

本次飞行中，乘组体验了数分钟失重状态，并观赏了地球弧线。火箭助推器实现自动着陆，乘员舱通过降落伞在得州沙漠安全回收。

除本特豪斯外，本次乘组还包括物理学家兼投资人乔伊·海德、曾效力于SpaceX的德美航天工程师汉斯·柯尼希斯曼、企业家尼尔·米尔奇、资源领域企业家阿多尼斯·普洛利斯，以及计算机科学家杰森·斯坦塞尔。任务还搭载了由蓝色起源教育基金会“未来俱乐部”征集的两万余张学生明信片。

蓝色起源未公开本次飞行的具体票价。该公司亚轨道计划此前已创下多项纪录，包括运送最年长（90岁）、最年轻（18岁）航天员，以及首对共同进入太空的商业飞行夫妇。

此次飞行再次展现了商业航天在拓展人类太空参与边界方面的持续探索。

中文翻译：

杰夫·贝佐斯旗下的蓝色起源太空公司今日为航天史写下新篇章——成功将首位轮椅使用者送入太空。美国中部时间上午8时15分（太平洋时间6时15分），蓝色起源亚轨道飞行器"新谢泼德号"从西德克萨斯州一号发射场升空，任务实况通过该公司官网及YouTube平台同步直播。

原定于上周四的发射因飞行团队"在起飞前检测到内置系统异常"而取消。蓝色起源未透露具体故障细节，但今日的发射倒计时全程顺利无阻。这是"新谢泼德号"第37次执行任务，也是第16次载人突破距地表100公里（62英里）的国际公认太空边界线。迄今已有包括贝佐斯本人在内的86人乘坐该飞行器进入太空，其中6人曾多次体验。

本次代号NS-37的六人乘组中，来自欧洲航天局的德裔航空航天与机电工程师米夏埃拉·"米基"·本陶斯尤为引人注目。2018年她在山地自行车事故中脊髓受损，从此与轮椅为伴。在慕尼黑工业大学2023年发布的专访中，本陶斯坦言自幼对太空"极度着迷"，十岁便立志成为宇航员。双腿瘫痪后，她曾以为太空梦已遥不可及。2022年通过"太空无障碍"项目体验零重力飞行后，希望之火重燃。去年她更在波兰卢纳雷斯研究站担任模拟太空任务指挥官。

如今这位33岁的工程师为太空探索开辟了新路径。"这无疑是重要的一步，残疾人士的太空旅行尚处起步阶段，"本陶斯在领英动态中写道，"我满怀感激，希望此举能推动航天产业观念革新，为更多像我这样的人创造机会。我或许是首位轮椅宇航员——但绝不会是最后一位。"

蓝色起源多年来持续改进"新谢泼德"设施的无障碍功能，例如在七层发射塔加装电梯。以致敬轮椅物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金命名的"新霍金"商业资源小组在此过程中发挥了关键作用。飞行期间，本陶斯与乘组成员体验了数分钟失重状态，透过舷窗凝视漆黑太空中地球的弧形轮廓。返航时推进器自主着陆，乘员舱借助降落伞平稳降落在西德克萨斯沙漠。

本次任务还搭载了由蓝色起源非营利教育基金会"未来俱乐部"征集的两万余张明信片，合作方包括优衣库、ARM & HAMMER小苏打火箭日及"赠予孩子世界村"慈善机构。蓝色起源通常不公开太空旅行票价，乘组人员既有受邀嘉宾，也不乏像加密货币企业家孙宇晨这样豪掷2800万美元竞拍席位的旅客。

"新谢泼德"亚轨道计划曾创下多项纪录：运送最年长宇航员（90岁的前试飞员埃德·德怀特于去年升空）、最年轻宇航员（2021年18岁的奥利弗·达门与贝佐斯同行），以及首对乘坐商业飞船共赴太空的夫妇（马克与莎伦·黑格尔于2022年实现）。

本文根据12月18日首发报道更新而成。

其他乘组成员包括：

• 乔伊·海德：物理学家兼量化投资人，近期从顶尖对冲基金城堡投资集团退休，与妻子及五个孩子定居佛罗里达州。
• 汉斯·柯尼希斯曼：德裔美籍航天工程师，长期致力于可重复使用航天器研发，曾是SpaceX创始团队成员。
• 尼尔·米尔奇：企业高管兼创业者，从家族企业Laundrylux起步，现任非营利生物医学研究机构杰克逊实验室董事会主席。
• 阿多尼斯·普罗利斯：企业家、投资人兼采矿工程师，拥有三十余年自然资源与能源领域经验，创立佩拉资源公司，联合创办能源革命风投，同时担任彩虹稀土公司董事长及战车有限公司CEO。
• 杰森·斯坦塞尔：扎根西德克萨斯州的计算机科学家、自称"太空极客"，长期近距离见证商业航天产业发展机遇。

英文来源：

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space.
Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard mission lifted off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:15 a.m. CT (6:15 a.m. PT). Video coverage of the mission is being streamed via Blue Origin’s website and YouTube.
An initial launch attempt was called off on Thursday because the flight team “observed an issue with our built-in checks prior to flight,” Blue Origin said. It didn’t provide further details about the issue, but today’s countdown went off without a hitch.
This was the 37th New Shepard mission, and the 16th to carry humans on a brief ride above the 100-kilometer (62-mile) altitude level that marks the internationally accepted boundary of space. Eighty-six people, including Bezos himself, have now flown on New Shepard. Six have gone multiple times.
The six-person crew for today’s mission, known as NS-37, included Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a German-born aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency who sustained a spinal cord injury in a mountain biking accident in 2018.
In a 2023 interview published by the Technical University of Munich, Benthaus said that she’s always been “mega fascinated” by space, and set her mind on becoming an astronaut when she was 10 years old.
When Benthaus lost the use of her legs, she initially thought her flight into space “was never going to happen.” But in 2022, her hopes got a big boost when she experienced a zero-G flight arranged through AstroAccess, a project that’s dedicated to paving the way for spacefliers with disabilities. Last year, she was the commander of an analog space mission conducted at the Lunares Research Station in Poland.
Now the 33-year-old has blazed a new trail for space access.
“This feels like an important step, since space travel for people with disabilities is still in its very early days,” Benthaus said in a LinkedIn post. “I’m so thankful and hope it inspires a change in mindset across the space industry, creating more opportunities for people like me. I might be the first — but have no intention of being the last.”
Blue Origin has been working for several years to improve accessibility at its New Shepard facilities — for example, by adding an elevator to the seven-story launch tower. A business resource group named New Hawking, in honor of the late wheelchair-using physicist Stephen Hawking, helped lead the way.
During their flight, Benthaus and the rest of the NS-37 crew experienced a few minutes of zero-gravity and views of a curving Earth against the blackness of space. At the end of the ride, the booster made an autonomous landing while the crew capsule descended to a parachute-assisted touchdown in the West Texas desert.
Benthaus’ crewmates included:

• Joey Hyde, a physicist and quantitative investor who recently retired from his career at Citadel, a leading hedge fund. He lives in Florida with his wife and five children.
• Hans Koenigsmann, a German-American aerospace engineer whose career has been dedicated to advancing reusable spacecraft and launch vehicles, most notably as an early team member at SpaceX.
• Neal Milch, a business executive and entrepreneur who launched his career through Laundrylux, a family-owned business. He now serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees at the Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit biomedical research institute.
• Adonis Pouroulis, an entrepreneur, investor and mining engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the natural resources and energy sector. He is the founder and chairman of Pella Resources, co-founder of Energy Revolution Ventures, chairman of Rainbow Rare Earths, and the CEO of Chariot Limited.
• Jason Stansell, a computer scientist and a self-proclaimed space nerd rooted in West Texas. He’s been watching from a front-row seat as the space industry has expanded to offer opportunities for commercial spaceflight.
  In addition to the crew, NS-37 carried more than 20,000 postcards submitted by students and others through a program organized by the Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s nonprofit educational foundation. The featured partners for this latest batch of postcards were UNIQLO, Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Rocket Day and Give Kids the World Village.
  Blue Origin typically doesn’t reveal how much people pay to take trips on New Shepard. In some cases, crew members have flown as invited guests. On the other end of the spectrum, crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $28 million for a ticket in a widely publicized auction.
  The suborbital space program’s previous milestones include flying the world’s oldest spaceflier (former test pilot Ed Dwight, who was 90 when he rode on New Shepard last year); the world’s youngest spaceflier (Oliver Daemen, who was 18 when he flew with Bezos and two others in 2021). and the first married couple to reach the final frontier together on a commercial spaceship (Marc and Sharon Hagle in 2022).
  This is an updated version of a report first published on Dec. 18.