"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part ...

Once in orbit, the upper stage released the Blue Ring Pathfinder: a small prototype spacecraft designed to host and transport ...

Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching ...

Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching ...

Blue Origin is planning to launch its reusable heavy-lift New Glenn rocket for its inaugural voyage at 1 a.m. EST Sunday if ...

The company said it was "reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt." ...

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

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.

With this step-by-step approach, it took 15 years for Blue Origin to launch its first rocket. New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space.

Blue Origin’s suborbital space tourism rocket, “New Shepard,” is named for Alan Shepard, who was a member of NASA’s first astronaut class and in 1961 became the first American to travel to ...