Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s put its orbital-class New Glenn rocket through its last major test in preparation ... late astronaut and senator John Glenn, has been in the ...

is set to test not only its flight capabilities but also its role in the future of space logistics. The New Glenn rocket, ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight ... Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into ...

The New Glenn rocket — named in honor of astronaut John Glenn — is expected to begin flights in 2020, and its capabilities are nearly a mirror image of what SpaceX’s Falcon 9 can pull off.

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday, Ars reports. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance ...

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