Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is preparing to send six more people to the edge of space as early as Saturday, June 21.

The mission will be the 13th human spaceflight Blue Origin has conducted since 2021, when billionaire Jeff Bezos, the company ...

The New Shepard mission is far from the first to carry scientific payloads to the edge of space, but it will be the first to attempt to simulate the moon's gravity.

New Shepard has now flown 70 people to space, including four who have flown twice, Blue Origin said. The first human flight ...

The launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, designed to carry tourists, was scrubbed Monday. The company will make another launch attempt Tuesday morning.

Item 1 of 2 Blue Origin's rocket New Shepard returns after blasting off, on billionaire Jeff Bezos's company's fourth suborbital tourism flight with a six-person crew, near Van Horn, Texas, U.S ...

The New Shepard booster is expected to return to Earth for a vertical landing on a pad near its launch site in West Texas about 7.5 minutes after liftoff, while the capsule and crew will parachute ...

New Shepard suffered a booster failure during an uncrewed flight from West Texas on Monday morning (Sept. 12). The vehicle's capsule successfully engaged its emergency abort system and ended up ...

The company isn’t yet taking reservations for passenger flights, and it hasn’t yet set the ticket price for New Shepard trips. But back in 2019, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith said the price for ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket is a go for launch on Tuesday for its first crewed spaceflight, including billionaire and founder Jeff Bezos, the company said Sunday.

New Shepard will carry 12 payloads on the upcoming flight, including NASA's Deorbit, Descent and Landing Sensor Demonstration, which will be mounted to the vehicle's exterior.

New Shepard isn’t the first commercial rocket to be turned into a model rocket: A decade ago, Estes sold SpaceShipOne model rockets that paid tribute to that rocket plane’s history-making ...