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 ...

The flight of Blue Origin’s 320-foot ... past 60 miles and scratch the edge of space. New Glenn, named for John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit, is a far different and more powerful ...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule parachutes back to Earth after a successful flight ... the first U.S. astronaut to make a journey to suborbital space, and John Glenn, the first American ...

The New Glenn rocket, located at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, was unable to carry out its first test flight from Cape ... named in honor of John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to orbit ...

John Glenn’s transcontinental F8U flight led to his selection as an astronaut ... radar just before selections would be made for the first class of astronauts and served notice that carrier ...

Blue Origin is targeting New Glenn’s inaugural mission (NG-1) for no earlier than Friday, January 10, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, the company announced ...

Space Force officials project an unprecedented 107 orbital rockets may launch this year from ... Eichholz said. The first New Glenn made its maiden flight in January, and Blue Origin officials ...

The flight was ... New Glenn was first announced in 2016 as a heavy-lift rocket. However, Blue Origin’s balancing of multiple priorities—from a lunar lander to Orbital Reef, a possible ...

The New Glenn rocket, standing at an impressive 98 meters tall, is a reusable vehicle designed to reduce costs and make orbital launches more sustainable. This mission will test the company’s ...

After the inaugural January flight of ... company into the orbital marketplace, currently dominated by SpaceX. And like SpaceX's Falcon 9, New Glenn is built to reuse the first-stage booster ...