Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the ...

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

Blue Origin hopes New Glenn, named for space legend John Glenn, will make it safely to orbit for the inaugural test flight of ...

New Glenn, developed by the private space firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ...

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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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, for example, has experienced two in-flight failures and one launchpad explosion but no catastrophic events during human missions. So far, Blue Origin has been known mostly ...