Just shy of 63 years after John ... the first American to orbit the Earth, Blue Origin’s New Glenn reusable rocket has managed to put a payload into a stable orbit on its very first flight ...

The rocket was named to honor the late John Glenn, the first ... the flight, it carried a small demonstration version of the company's "Blue Ring" spacecraft. Known in the industry as an orbital ...

The seven-engine, 320-foot New Glenn rocket — named for late astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the planet — blasted off a NASA launch pad in Florida on its first test flight ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture counted down to the final hour tonight, but in the end, the company had to postpone the first-ever orbital ... NASA astronaut John Glenn, would be built ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

(AP) — Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday ... Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than ...

The only caveat is that the reusable first-stage booster was lost during flight and ... of Blue Origin’s orbital launch vehicles going more quickly. Regardless, New Glenn’s success is a ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...