Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test Wednesday morning for its next New Shepard spacecraft that will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.

A new model of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifts off for the first time Oct. 23. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — Blue Origin carried out the first flight of a new model of its ...

Blue Origin has successfully launched a new human-rated capsule loaded with with sci-fi cargo and thousands of postcards ...

The “Postcards to Space” program collects the cards from kids, sends them to space and back on New Shepard flights, and then returns them to the kids as keepsakes. Astronomy undergrads at the ...

The aerospace firm’s New Shepard flight NS-27 successfully launched at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday morning in Texas, marking the 27th mission in the program’s history and the unveiling of its second ...

New Shepard flights are suborbital missions with the booster lifting the capsule up past this altitude for short trips that take less than 12 minutes from launch to landing. NS-27 will be the 27th ...

the reusable New Shepard vehicle was powered by a single BE-3 engine, which fired for the first two minutes and 20 seconds of flight before reigniting after stage separation to slow the booster to ...

This was the 27th flight of a New Shepard launch vehicle since 2015. All those missions used the same capsule, the RSS First Step, bringing 43 people to the edge of space since crewed missions ...

Blue Origin, on Wednesday, finally launched its brand new human-rated spacecraft and it ended in success. The New Shepard (NS) rocket lifted off at 8:57 pm IST for the NS-27 mission from the company's ...

Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test Wednesday morning for its next New Shepard spacecraft that will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth. The ...