Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket from the space coast, but the booster was lost during an attempted barge landing in the Atlantic. SpaceX achieved a dramatic mid-air booster ...

For the first time since its founding, nearly a quarter of a century ago, Blue Origin had reached orbit. The long-awaited ...

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket has launched from Florida and entered orbit for the first time However the rocket booster - designed to land on a platform in the Atlantic so it can be used again - ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at ...

Failure to safely land the rocket booster, however, would not make the mission unsuccessful: Recovering rocket parts for reuse is a feat aimed solely at saving Blue Origin money. Most rocket ...

While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business ...

Blue Origin delayed what would have been the inaugural ... launch but that technical issues might come up. “If we have failure today, at any point in the mission, we’ll pick ourselves up ...

Below are some scenarios describing what may go right or wrong during the flight, and how they may be interpreted along a spectrum of success and failure. Blue Origin was founded in 2000.

Among the key experiments are Electrostatic Dust Lofting, which will study how lunar dust gets electrically charged when ...