In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a ...

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and teammates spent several minutes in microgravity. Blue Origin made history Saturday, sending for the first time a person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

Blue Origin's next New Shepard rocket launch is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 18, from its private site in West Texas. The six-person crew includes an aerospace engineer who could become the first ...

Fresh off its highly successful NG-2 flight, which launched the ESCAPADE Mars probes and featured a successful booster landing, Blue Origin unveiled the Blue Moon Mk1 robotic lander due to fly in 2026 ...

After a couple of scrubs and a few aggravating holds, the Blue Origin New Glenn finally rocketed into the clear, blue Florida sky. The rocket not only sent a pair of ESCAPADE probes toward Mars and ...

After its most recent successful New Glenn mission, Blue Origin is announcing propulsion upgrades to its star rocket, and plans for a larger "super-heavy class rocket" that puts the company in even ...

Fresh off a completely successful second flight of its new mega rocket, Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has just revealed designs for an even larger version of the launch system. The new-look ...

The New Glenn first stage after landing on the NG-2 mission. Credit: Blue Origin webcast WASHINGTON — After a successful second flight of New Glenn, including the first landing of the booster, Blue ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ company ...

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Update: Thursday, November 13, 4:36 p.m. ET: New Glenn lifted off from Launch Complex 36 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at roughly 3:55 p.m. ET on Thursday. The rocket had a clean ...