Strahan will travel to space next month

NEW YORK — Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan volition beryllium among the unit connected Blue Origin's adjacent formation to space.

Strahan, who conscionable turned 50 connected Sunday, shared details of his preparations for the Dec. 9 formation during a conception Tuesday connected Good Morning America. The footage included Strahan being outfitted for his spacesuit and investigating retired formation seats.

Strahan said connected GMA that helium was approached by Blue Origin and was asked if he'd similar to alert during an upcoming mission.

"Without hesitation, I said yes," Strahan said.

The institution said Tuesday that Strahan would articulation Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest girl of astronaut Alan Shepard, connected the flight.

The formation volition besides see 4 paying customers: abstraction manufacture enforcement and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, capitalist Evan Dick, Bess Ventures laminitis Lane Bess, and Cameron Bess.

This volition beryllium New Shepard's 3rd quality formation this twelvemonth and the archetypal of its flights to transportation six astronauts to space.

Previously, Blue Origin rockets person carried institution laminitis and billionaire Jeff Bezos and "Star Trek" histrion William Shatner into space.

The Dec. 9 motorboat is conscionable the latest successful what has proven to beryllium a landmark twelvemonth for backstage abstraction travel. Virgin Galactic sent billionaire laminitis Richard Branson into abstraction earlier this year, and Elon Musk's SpaceX has conducted respective quality flights successful concern with NASA.