No one was on board the New Glenn flight, which carried a single small test payload into space. The rocket was named to honor the late John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth.

The rocket is built to haul spacecraft and eventually ... New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn’s launch site ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

After years of delays, Blue Origin finally debuted its New Glenn rocket on January 16. The heavy-lift launch vehicle blasted off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

(AP) — Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin is cutting 10% of its workforce. This week's move comes a month after the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which reached orbit on its ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The second launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket could be just a few months away. The 320-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) New Glenn lifted off for the first time on Jan. 16 ...

Blue Origin announced plans to lay off 10% of its workforce — more than 1,000 employees — just weeks after the company debuted its first orbital rocket, New Glenn, from Florida’s Space Coast ...

FILE - Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Jan. 16, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla ...