Jim Kitchen, a UNC-Chapel Hill business professor and entrepreneur, will have to wait at least another two days to add ”astronaut” to his resume with his trip to space as part of the crew of Blue ...

UNC professor Jim Kitchen successfully flew to space and returned safely to earth in the fourth Blue Origin launch containing humans on board. The launch was originally scheduled to take place March ...

When Jim Kitchen flew into space on Blue Origin’s fourth human mission in March, he was in way better shape than the company required. Kitchen is a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at the ...

American astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth Wednesday from the International Space Station along with two fellow Russian cosmonauts. He was in space for 355 straight days, longer than any ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen has had a busy year. In March, Kitchen and five others boarded a Blue Origin flight and headed to space. His ...

Three months ago, entrepreneur and UNC-Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen was gazing down at Earth from a rocketship in the blackness of outer space. Next week, he’ll be exploring the darkness of the ...

The past few days have been surreal – arriving at the @blueorigin Astronaut Village, meeting my fellow crewmates, and training for the launch. I'll be blasting into ...