Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

After abruptly calling off its first launch attempt in the early hours of Monday morning, Blue Origin notched a historic ...

The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test ...

It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in ...

Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it ...

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn.

The successful launch kicks off a new era for Blue Origin, which until now has been stuck with a rocket (called New Shepard) that is not designed to go into orbit, which limits its usefulness.

Until Thursday’s New Glenn launch, Blue Origin had only flown its New Shepard rocket, a small, one-engine vehicle that carries paying customers to the edge of space, where they experience a few ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit ...

John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth aboard NASA’s Friendship 7 capsule in ... joyous adventure.” Blue Origin’s suborbital space tourism rocket, “New Shepard,” is named ...

With this step-by-step approach, it took 15 years for Blue Origin to launch its first rocket. New Shepard ... allowing the capsule to safely return to Earth. This landing also meant that had ...