"The Space Gal" is now the 100th woman to fly to space.
Emily Calandrelli, who adopted her online persona long before she booked a trip with Blue Origin, lifted off on Friday (Nov. 22) as one of the six passengers aboard the company's New Shepard rocket. The 10-minute suborbital flight — of which about four minutes were spent in space — launched and landed at Blue Origin's West Texas site.
"This is my dream," wrote Calandrelli on social media when it was announced she was going to be on Blue Origin's NS-28 crew. "I studied aerospace engineering for nearly a decade, then became the first woman in the U.S. with a national science [TV] show. It became my mission to bring representation to girls in STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics]."
"Now, I'll become one the first 100 women in space, showing girls everywhere that they too can reach the stars," she said.
