Just over a week after SpaceX's launchpad rocket failure, Blue Origin — the aerospace company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos — has revealed its ambitious plans to build two "New Glenn ...

New Glenn honors a legendary astronaut: John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth in 1962. It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn will launch on Sunday—initiating Bezos’s challenge to SpaceX New Glenn has been a core focus for Blue Origin since the beginning of its decade-long development.

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA's Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.

Blue Origin has confirmed its New Glenn rocket is on track for launch before the end of 2024.… The company made the announcement alongside confirmation that the Blue Ring payload – which ...

Work on Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch complex – LC-36 – is well underway. Recent aerial imagery of Cape Canaveral from NOAA shows how far Blue has come on the launch complex. Meanwhile ...

The New Glenn rocket, a potential rival to SpaceX, aims to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press ...

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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Glenn rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just after midnight on Sunday. It's been a long time coming ...