“This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it,” Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of New Glenn, said in a ...

John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue Origin named its first orbital-class rocket after him.

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Years in the making, the commercial rocket is on the verge of its maiden flight.

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Up to now, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company has only launched its suborbital New Shepard rocket, on tourist flights to the edge of space. The New Glenn, powered by BE-4 engines, is a two ...

A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company's launch site in West Texas on March 31, 2022. The mission carried five paying passengers and Gary Lai, New Shepard's chief architect ...

So far, Blue Origin has been known mostly for its space tourism efforts, launching paying customers and celebrities on New Shepard — a much smaller, suborbital rocket that is not powerful enough ...