Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket—a reusable sub-orbital rocket used for space tourism—27 times. It's named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Bezos flew in New Shepard on July 20, 2021, crossing the Kármán line, the dividing line between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.

Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.

Blue Abyss has entered into a public/private partnership known as a Space Act Agreement with NASA Glenn Research Center to help advance next-generation extreme environment and spaceflight training.

While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business, mostly with other people’s money.

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit.

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk's industry-leading SpaceX.

The project will also be home to research that addresses challenges for low-Earth orbit missions, Moon missions and even possible trips to Mars

Founded 25 years ago by Bezos, Blue Origin has been launching paying passengers to the edge of space since 2021, including himself. The short hops from Texas use smaller rockets named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week ...

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

Lunar lander:FireFly Aerospace's Blue Ghost is on its way to the moon with NASA payloads Blue Origin's New Glenn spacecraft takes off from Florida The New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST ...

Vuba aha, hari abibajije icyo umubano wa hafi hagati ya Bwana Musk na Donald watowe kongera kuyobora Amerika ushobora gusobanura ku ruhare rw'amasosiyete yigenga muri gahunda z'isanzure za leta ya Amerika.