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

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

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

Blue Origin hopes New Glenn, named for space legend John Glenn, will make it safely to orbit for the inaugural test flight of ...

Thursday afternoon, the massive 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket sat on Launch Pad 36 at Cape Canaveral, steam billowing from ...

New Shepard flights are suborbital missions with ... which the company said was because an engine nozzle got too hot, suffered a structural failure and threw the booster’s trajectory out of ...

The company, owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, also received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to ...

New Shepard’s booster engines are similar to those in New Glenn’s second stage. New Glenn rockets are more than twice as ...

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 on ...

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-stage, heavy-lift ...

Flashes from the engines pierced through billows of steam ... Bezos started Blue Origin in 2000, but its first small rocket, New Shepard, has primarily focused on space tourism, providing short ...