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

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

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.

Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket—a reusable sub-orbital rocket used for space tourism—27 times. It's named ...

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

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

After nearly a decade of anticipation, Blue Origin’s New Glenn—one of the largest rockets ever built—has made it to space. During the twilight of Thursday morning, at Cape Canaveral Space ...

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 ...

Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit.

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.

New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. New Shepard is not powerful enough to reach orbit. Instead, it flies a suborbital trajectory.