The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with ...

If New Glenn can continue to demonstrate its capabilities and (more crucially) its reliability, it has the potential to take ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test of the company’s ability to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn.

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 name “New Glenn” follows Blue Origin’s pattern of naming rockets after pioneering NASA astronauts from the earliest days of human spaceflight. John Glenn was the first American to orbit ...

Blue Origin successfully launched its two-stage heavy-lift New Glenn rocket on its unmanned maiden voyage into space early ...

Founded 25 years ago by Bezos, Blue Origin has been launching paying passengers to the edge of space since 2021, including ...

New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn's launch site, rebuilding historic Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida following a hold-up on Monday.