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The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space, was one of six passengers buckled into the cabin of Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft as it lifted off from a launch site outside the west Texas town of Van Horn.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Michael Strahan’s capsule soared to an altitude of about 66 miles, providing a few minutes of weightlessness.

Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan caught a ride to space with Jeff Bezos’ rocket-launching company Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America’s first astronaut.