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Blue Origin is a private company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000 that develops and launches rockets, spacecraft, and satellites. It offers suborbital space tourism flights with New Shepard and plans to provide lunar lander services and orbital launch vehicles with New Glenn.
Watch liftoff of Blue Origin's New Shepard. The scheduled New Shepard flight lifted off at 9:07 a.m. ET into cloudy skies from Bezos' Launch Site One in rural West Texas over 140 miles east of El ...
New Glenn is a reusable two-stage rocket developed by Blue Origin, named after NASA astronaut John Glenn. It is designed to launch from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg, and carry payloads to low Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit and beyond.
Learn about the locations and functions of Blue Origin's development, manufacturing, and test facilities in four US states. The company is headquartered in Kent, Washington, and has a launch site in West Texas, a landing platform in Florida, and an engine factory in Alabama.
Jeff Bezos gave a tour of Blue Origin's factory, showcasing the space company's New Glenn rocket. New Glenn, standing over 320 feet tall, is one of the largest rockets ever built.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said that even though New Glenn’s first-stage booster is 188 feet tall compared to New Shepard’s 54-foot booster, the landing zone on the vessel is the same 20-foot ...
Blue Origin NS-25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission launched on 19 May 2024 using the New Shepard rocket. It carried six tourists, including Ed Dwight, the oldest person to reach space and the first African-American astronaut candidate.
Blue Origin is set to launch its first passenger spaceflight on Tuesday, carrying founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers for a journey to experience the weightlessness of suborbital space.