The vehicle is best known for carrying paying customers on brief trips to suborbital space. But NS-29 is not a space tourist flight; the capsule is packed with 30 research payloads, "all but one ...

Blue Origin launched a spacecraft that can simulate lunar gravity into suborbital space during a research flight from West Texas. New strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start the day smarter ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space ... Related: New Shepard: Rocket for space tourism During the flight, the capsule created "lunar gravity forces ...

While Galactic 05 marks Alan Stern's first foray into space ... the flight and will be involved in risk-reduction operations and astronomical observations to optimise suborbital spacecraft ...