An uncrewed New Shepard rocket is now expected to launch the so-called NS-29 mission on Tuesday (Feb. 4) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas. The mission will launch 30 different ...

The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan. 28, but called off that try due to uncooperative weather and an issue with the rocket's avionics.

While New Shepard is best known as a space tourist vehicle, 19 of its 28 flights to date have been uncrewed. The reusable rocket-capsule combo last flew people on Nov. 22, a mission that sent "The ...

28 attempt due to uncooperative weather and an issue with the rocket's avionics. Today's launch kicked off Blue Origin's uncrewed NS-29 mission, so named because it was the 29th New Shepard flight ...

The next launch will be the 29th flight for New Shepard, a suborbital launch vehicle designed to carry space tourists and commercial payloads above the Kármán line, the point about 62 miles (100 ...

Watch live as Jeff Bezos’ New Origin launches the New Shepard rocket. The mission, known as NS-29, will simulate the moon's gravity and carry 30 payloads, nearly all of which focus on testing ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes’ worth of moon-level gravity. The uncrewed mission ...

Blue Origin scrubbed a planned launch of its New Shepard rocket Tuesday due to persistent cloud cover at the west Texas launch site. In a post on social media, the company said an additional issue ...

The New Shepard flew 15 times without a crew beginning in 2012 before Bezos joined the first crewed flight in 2021 to ride atop the rocket as part of NS-16. The spacecraft's most recent flight ...

Video of the uncrewed launch, which Blue Origin livestreamed, shows the New Shepard climbing to the edge of space, where the capsule separated from the rocket to pull off the feat for the first ...