For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...

New Shepard is a launch vehicle designed to be fully reusable, with a capsule that returns to Earth via three parachutes. The ...

Blue Origin has sent its reusable New Shepard rocket on another suborbital lob, this time simulating lunar gravity for ...

The final payload will actually ride on the rocket's booster while the rest are tucked inside the return capsule. Of the 29 payloads aboard New Shepard, 17 are NASA experiments meant to test a ...

Liftoff came at 10 a.m. CT (8 a.m. PT). New Shepard’s hydrogen-powered booster sent the capsule up to a height of 64.6 miles (104 kilometers), just above the 100-kilometer Karman Line that marks ...

The payload-only flight differed from previous New Shepard launches by spinning the capsule after it separated from the booster. The capsule’s reaction control thrusters were commanded to spin ...

A 30 th payload will fly on the outside of the New Shepard booster to be exposed to the space environment. The payloads fall into six broad categories: in-situ resource utilization, dust ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...