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 ...

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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.

John Glenn. With its first rocket, New Shepard, closing in on the end of its test series, Blue’s initial focus has been towards the launch of paying customers – and onboard payloads – via ...

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 ...

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 ...

A much bigger, stronger Bay City John Glenn team dominated possession Tuesday ... to and things we need to improve.’ It’s a good test game to get in early and kind of wake up from an 8-0 ...