The launch comes after almost a decade of development ... The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth’s orbit. Its first stage is powered by seven ...

Related: John Glenn: America's 1st space hero At the time Glenn wrote his letter, the only commercial rocket to launch, land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital booster.

Rockets launch from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. New Glenn is named for John Glenn. Blue Origin aims to land the first-stage ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of ...

tall New Glenn rocket took off from Launch Pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at around 2:03 a.m. ET. The New Glenn, named after John Glenn in honor of being the first American to orbit ...

New Glenn, which is named after the late pioneer astronaut John Glenn, is due to launch Blue Origin’s Blue Ring Pathfinder, a payload that’s designed to test the communications, power and ...

A livestream for the launch should begin one hour before liftoff ... The new rocket, named after famed NASA Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn, is designed to carry payloads of up to 13 metric ...

Another launch attempt Tuesday was also scrubbed, that time due to poor weather. Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is a 320-foot heavy-lift launch vehicle that ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is on track for its first launch before the end of 2024. The rocket, named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, has its first major customer ...