On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is meant to shuttle cargo, satellites, and, in the future, people into space. The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth ...

Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.

John Glenn. It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago.

called New Glenn, its name honoring US space legend John Glenn. Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in ...

Named after John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit ... New Glenn is smaller than SpaceX’s Starship but larger than the space shuttle. Credit: Jurgenspacerocket/Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

Landing and reusing boosters are critical to reducing costs in the commercial space industry, a feat pioneered by SpaceX’s ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin's first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket stands atop its Launch Complex 36 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ... famed NASA Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn, is designed to carry ...

Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit.