CES 2026: WheelMove Turns Any Standard Wheelchair Into an Electric One

WheelMove is a portable wheelchair attachment that can turn any standard wheelchair into an electric one. It debuted at CES ...

WheelMove gives manual wheelchairs the power and height to handle rough terrain

As the WheelMove team showed at its booth, the accessory can be attached to a wheelchair in a matter of seconds while seated, ...
Space Coast Daily

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Carried First Wheelchair User to Space During NS-37 Flight

Blue Origin successfully launched the 37th flight of the New Shepard program, marking a first for wheelchair altitude.
Disability Scoop

In Historic Move, Wheelchair User Goes To Space

For the first time ever, a wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.

‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Steven W. Bailey Reveals Neuromuscular Disorder, Wheelchair Use: “Same Actor … Now With Wheels”

A familiar face to fans of Grey’s Anatomy, Steven W. Bailey is opening up about a five-year struggle with his own health. On ...

How a 3-legged goat is learning to use a wheelchair

The 7-year-old goat had gone from helping people in bereavement and children with cerebral palsy to needing help moving around. People moved by his story in The Inquirer responded with generosity.
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33-year-old paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to go to space

"It was the coolest experience," exclaimed Micahela Benthaus as she landed on Earth after an enthralling trip in space that lasted about 10 minutes. As the ivory-colored, dome-shaped craft flanked ...
The New York Times

In a First, a Wheelchair User Joins a Short Flight to Space

A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. By Adeel Hassan A paraplegic engineer from Germany became ...
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Blue Origin mission sends wheelchair user to space and back for the first time in history

Space.com reported that Blue Origin completed a suborbital human spaceflight on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, which marked a first in commercial spaceflight. The mission launched at 9:15 a.m. EST from the ...
CBS News

Blue Origin launches wheelchair-user and 5 others on sub-orbital trip to space

In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...
Space.com

Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video)

Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus made spaceflight history on Saturday morning (Dec. 20). Blue Origin launched Benthaus and her five crewmates on a suborbital spaceflight from the company's West Texas ...
Phys.org

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.