After years of development, Blue Origin’s semi-reusable heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, is due to launch on its ...

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

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, New Glenn.

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

Thursday afternoon, the massive 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket sat on Launch Pad 36 at Cape Canaveral, steam billowing from it − indicating fuel was being poured into the rocket. Blue Origin's ...

Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first ...

(New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard ... including a reusable first stage Engines: First stage: Seven of Blue Origin's BE-4s. Upper stage: Two of the company's BE-3Us Fuel: BE4s: liquid ...