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 ...

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 ...

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.

Blue Origin opted to make the attempt on the rocket's maiden flight. That was based in part on the company's experience launching and landing its sub-orbital New Shepard rocket, used to carry ...

“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.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space dreams are taking flight on a new level. On Thursday, Bezos' Blue Origin company launched ... platform in the ocean. New Shepard is named for Alan Shepard ...

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 ...

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 ...