In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

New Glenn, which has been in development for about a decade, can carry 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its ...

An initial test launch of the towering ... its gargantuan new-generation rocket. Blue Origin will now attempt to land New Glenn's first-stage booster on a drone ship stationed about 620 miles ...

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 36 from the Kennedy Space Center ... [+] on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch occurred at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

It made its debut launch five years later, in 2010. That said, New Glenn is more than three times more powerful than SpaceX's first Falcon 9. Blue Origin's comparatively tiny New Shepard rocket ...

Blue Origin has not disclosed the rocket's launch pricing. Falcon 9 starts at around $62 million. The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as ...

That was before a series of both weather and technical issues delayed the launch, which Blue Origin finally managed to pull off in the predawn hours. The rocket is the first that Blue Origin ...

However, the rocket’s first stage exploded on the way back down to Earth as Blue Origin attempted to land that section on a drone ship at sea. The company hopes to launch again this spring ...

the rocket achieved the goal of reaching orbit, and as Bezos watched on from Mission Control, company employees cheered and applauded the successful launch. "We did it! Orbital," said Blue Origin ...

Blue Origin has just released a video recap (above) of last week’s successful maiden launch of its heavy-lift rocket, the New Glenn. The footage shows some dramatic close-ups of the 98-meter ...