{"id":304184,"date":"2025-12-21T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/german-paraplegic-engineer-becomes-first-wheelchair-user-to-go-to-space-on-blue-origin-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:00:28","slug":"german-paraplegic-engineer-becomes-first-wheelchair-user-to-go-to-space-on-blue-origin-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/german-paraplegic-engineer-becomes-first-wheelchair-user-to-go-to-space-on-blue-origin-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"German paraplegic engineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space on Blue Origin flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/QJWA9E2Q79M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"German paraplegic engineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space on Blue Origin flight\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJWA9E2Q79M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Michaela Benthaus became the first wheelchair user to go to space. 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The German aerospace engineer lost the use of her legs in a mountain biking accident in 2018. #benthaus #wheelchairuserinspace #paraplegic For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ Follow DW on social media: \u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews \u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews \u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/ \u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[130007,148646,140569],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-304184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-became","tag-benthaus","tag-michaela"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German paraplegic engineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space on Blue Origin flight | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch German paraplegic engineer becomes first wheelchair user to go to space on Blue Origin flight for free, here on News ISC. 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