Jesús Calleja travels into space, becomes the third Spanish astronaut?

At about 5.10 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, Jesus Calleja touched the mainland after an 11-minute adventure with which he made history. The presenter and adventurer just became the third Spaniard to travel into space, the first non-counselman. On board Blue Oringin’s New Shepard ship, along with five other crew members, Calleja first-hand relayed the NS-30 mission, which has taken him from Texas to beyond the Kárman line, the internationally rec…

Sitting in the number 2 seat of Blue Oringin's New Shepard ship, the adventurer and television presenter Jesús Calleja has just made his child's dream come true...

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The adventurer and presenter Jesús Calleja has fulfilled his childhood dream by traveling into space on board the 18-meter-high New Shepard rocket. The takeoff, which took place in Texas, was delayed by 20 minutes due to routine reviews, but the rest of the mission passed without incident. Calleja, 59 years old, was accompanied by five other passengers on one of his most exciting trips, which makes him the third Spaniard to reach the space. The …

The presenter Jesús Calleja has completed his flight successfully this Tuesday and has thus become the third Spaniard to travel into space, after Miguel López-Alegría and Pedro Duque, and the first to do so without being a professional astronaut.