Years in the making, the commercial rocket is on the verge of its maiden flight.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is set to send another six people to space, including a science show host, two returning travelers, two philanthropists and an online prize winner.

A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...

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Up to now, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company has only launched its suborbital New Shepard rocket, on tourist flights to the edge of space. The New Glenn, powered by BE-4 engines, is a two ...

New Glenn is a partially reusable heavy-lift rocket that's expected to make its first flight in December 2024. Its developer is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which also flies the New Shepard suborbital ...

Founded by former Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, the company also operates a suborbital vehicle known as New Shepard out of Van Horn, Texas. That single stage rocket mimics the flight of Alan Shepard ...

Up till now, the spaceflight company set up by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos 24 years ago has only flown the single-stage suborbital New Shepard rocket, so the New Glenn’s maiden launch is a big ...

So far, Blue Origin has been known mostly for its space tourism efforts, launching paying customers and celebrities on New Shepard — a much smaller, suborbital rocket that is not powerful enough ...