- Super Bowl champ will join daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard
- Duo will join four paying customers on flight
NFL hall of famer Michael Strahan is going to space next month.
Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday and won Super Bowl XLII during his 15-year career with the New York Giants, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the 9 December mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father and the first American in space. The Blue Origin flight, the company headed by Jeff Bezos, will also carry four paying customers and will be the third by the New Shepard craft this year to shuttle humans to space.
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