The billionaire’s rocket is ready for its first launch. It could give satellite operators and the DoD a long-desired option ...

Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, has postponed the maiden voyage into orbital ...

HANDOUT/BLUE ORIGIN/AFP Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, is poised for a historic first: its maiden voyage into orbital space with a brand new rocket ...

Although Blue Origin has been launching much smaller New Shepard rockets on suborbital spaceflights for a decade, it has never put a payload into Earth orbit. That’s due to change with tonight ...

9 (UPI) --Rough weather has prompted space exploration company Blue Origin to postpone the launch of its New Glenn rocket ... Origin scrubs return of New Shepard rocket flight due to technical ...

It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Standing 320 feet (98 meters) tall -- roughly equivalent to a 32 ...

Billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos created Blue Origin back in 2000, but has to date only launched the smaller suborbital New Shepard rockets from its facilities in West Texas. The New ...

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 ...