will remain aboard for the roughly six-hour test flight. Blue Origin has experience landing its New Shepard rockets -- used for suborbital tourism -- but they are five times smaller and land on ...

land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital booster. It was not until a month after Glenn's death that SpaceX followed with the first orbital launch of a "flight proven" Falcon 9 ...

New Glenn is a partially reusable heavy-lift rocket that's expected to make its first flight in December 2024. Its developer is Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which also flies the New Shepard suborbital ...

New Shepard is named for Alan Shepard ... "This is our first flight and we've prepared rigorously for it," said Blue Origin's Jarrett Jones. "But no amount of ground testing or mission simulations ...

Both were 90 at the time of their respective flights. The Blue Origin rocket is named after astronaut John Glenn, who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the Earth. Its New Shepard is named ...