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.

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.

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.

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

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

The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecasts 90% odds of favorable launch weather during Thursday's three-hour window, which will open at 1 a.m.

Blue Origin now hopes to use New Glenn to launch satellites and other spacecraft, including some that it is designing for the moon. The company already has contracts with NASA, the Space Force ...

NASA is also relying on Blue Origin for future launches of its human space landing system Blue Moon for the Artemis moon program, which will launch on New Glenn.

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.