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

An uncrewed New Shepard rocket is now expected to launch the so-called NS-29 mission on Tuesday (Feb. 4) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas. The mission will launch 30 different ...

It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Standing 320 feet (98 meters) tall -- roughly equivalent to a 32 ...

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For the first time ever, a Jeff Bezos-built rocket has reached Earth orbit (the company’s New Shepard rocket, used for space tourism purposes, is suborbital); the New Glenn second stage reached ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in ... Image Jeff Bezos announcing the Blue Origin New Shepard space system in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2017.Credit ...

With this step-by-step approach, it took 15 years for Blue Origin to launch its first rocket. New Shepard, which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space.

Blue Origin scrubbed a planned launch of its New Shepard rocket Tuesday due to persistent cloud cover at the west Texas launch site. In a post on social media, the company said an additional issue ...

An uncrewed New Shepard rocket is now expected to launch the so-called NS-29 mission on Tuesday (Feb. 4) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas. The mission will launch 30 different ...

While New Shepard is best known as a space tourist vehicle, 19 of its 28 flights to date have been uncrewed. The reusable rocket-capsule combo last flew people on Nov. 22, a mission that sent "The ...

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