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

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 ...

Bezos’ space company Blue Origin started at about the same time as Musk’s SpaceX but since then Musk’s firm has launched more ...

Blue Origin, the private space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has pulled a major test of its rocket.

Blue Origin for years has launched and landed its much smaller, reusable New Shepard rocket to and from the brim of Earth’s atmosphere. It has yet to send anything into orbit in the 25 years ...

Blue Origin already lands their single-stage suborbital New Shepard rocket after flights from Texas. For this inaugural flight, Blue Origin has revealed the payload will be a test of the company's ...

Blue Origin has been launching its sub-orbital, single-stage New Shepard rocket for several years, but the New Glenn is a major step up and gives the company a chance to join a select group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...