Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn.

Florida’s sky briefly lit up during the night as one of a handful of big new American-made rockets took flight. It was the ...

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, has postponed the maiden voyage into orbital space of its brand-new rocket, New Glenn, due to unspecified technical ...

Blue Origin’s suborbital space tourism rocket, “New Shepard,” is named for Alan ... initially going to be on board a retrofitted cargo ship that Bezos purchased years ago.

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, has postponed the maiden voyage into orbital space of its brand-new rocket, New Glenn, due to unspecified technical ...

The towering 320-foot (98-meter) rocket, dubbed New ... its New Shepard rockets -- used for suborbital tourism -- but they are five times smaller and land on terra firma rather than a ship at ...

Named for Bezos’ mother, the company’s “Jacklyn” landing pad was initially going to be on board a retrofitted cargo ship that ... its suborbital New Shepard tourism rocket to be reusable.

Image The New Shepard rocket returning to West Texas after a ... Glenn by attempting to land its booster stage on an autonomous ship named Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean. The company even named ...

New Glenn is classified as a "heavy-lift launcher," capable of placing substantial payloads into low-Earth orbit. It is expected to carry up to 45 tons into orbit. That is more than double that of ...

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, is poised for a historic first: its maiden voyage into orbital space with a brand new rocket, New Glenn. Here are five ...