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 ...

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

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 ...

In October 2024, Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test for its next New Shepard spacecraft, which will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.

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

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.

It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Standing 320 feet (98 meters) tall -- roughly equivalent to a 32 ...

“Today marks a new era for Blue Origin and for commercial space ... has seen success with its New Shepard passenger rockets, which take paying customers into space from Texas.

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 ...