A rising senior at UNC is preparing to take flight in the coming months — and is set to make history. Karsen Kitchen, a member of UNC’s Class of 2025, is one of the six crew members announced Wednesday for Blue Origin’s upcoming New Shepard 26 flight to the Kármán line, which is the border between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The Chapel Hill native, who is double-majoring in communications and astronomy at Carolina, would become the youngest woman ever to cross that boundary. Kitchen has aspirations of working in the space industry. Not only is she interning with Blue Origin — a commercial space flight company and manufacturer founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — but she previously worked at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium for a summer and recently founded a new initiative to encourage women to seek careers involving space called Orbitelle. Kitchen said she is “incredibly grateful and excited” for the opportunity to fly on the future Blue Origin trip with her colleagues. The rest of t...