Blue Origin has already successfully flown and landed its single-stage New Shepard from Texas − ferrying payloads and paying customers on short sub-orbital leaps. New Shepard doesn't orbit.
Its developer is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which also flies the New Shepard suborbital tourism vehicle ... with a debut liftoff targeted for 2020. New Glenn's first stage was designed to be ...
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.
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 ...