If all goes according to plan, New Shepard — a reusable rocket-capsule combo — will lift off on Tuesday from Blue Origin's ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...

It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in ...

Blue Origin flight controllers detected an avionics issue on the New Shepard booster, prompting the team to stand down for the day. Even without the technical glitch, a persistent, thick cloud ...

“Beautiful,” Mr. Musk commented on one of the images. Image Jeff Bezos announcing the Blue Origin New Shepard space system in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2017.Credit...Nick Cote for The New ...

The New Shepard launch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 at 11 am EST / 10 am local time at Blue Origin’s Test Site One, near Van Horn in Texas. The company owned by Amazon supremo Jeff ...

The NG-1 mission is a huge event for Blue Origin, as up until now it has only performed launches of its much less powerful sub-orbital, single-stage New Shepard rocket, which is mainly used for ...

For Blue Origin, there’s a lot riding on New Glenn’s mission, known as NG-1. Although the company has launched smaller New Shepard rockets on suborbital spaceflights for a decade ...

The successful launch kicks off a new era for Blue Origin, which until now has been stuck with a rocket (called New Shepard) that is not designed to go into orbit, which limits its usefulness.

During the launch countdown, Blue Origin flight controllers detected an avionics issue on the New Shepard booster, prompting the team to stand down for the day. Even without the technical glitch, a ...