John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue Origin named its first orbital-class rocket after him.

According to the Space Coast Office of Tourism, the launch is now scheduled for no earlier than 1 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10.

Blue Origin got its license, the payload is secure and now it has a target launch window to try and send up its New Glenn ...

“This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it,” Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of New Glenn, said in a ...

Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard programme has celebrated another milestone as the company continues to make space accessible to ...

Bezos's Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket this week, marking a pivotal moment in the ...

While Blue Origin launches its single-stage New Shepard from Texas − which carries payload and paying passengers on a short ride to the edge of space − this will be the first time the company ...

Bezos started Blue Origin in 2000, but its first small rocket, New Shepard, has primarily focused on space tourism, providing short flights for wealthy passengers to the cusp of space and back.

Up until this point, Blue Origin has mostly been known for its New Shepard suborbital rocket, which carries space tourists and some cargo up to suborbital space and back in brief flights.