Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

An enormous Blue Origin rocket meant to challenge SpaceX in regularly deploying satellites and other cargo into orbit underwent its inaugural flight test Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch from West Texas. The New Shepard vehicle was developed by billionaire Jeff ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Blue Origin called off the debut launch of its massive new rocket early Monday because of technical trouble. The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast off before ...

In unusual fashion, Blue Origin scrubbed two New Glenn rocket maiden mission launch attempts within an 18-hour span on Monday ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates before, during and after the historic liftoff of Blue Origin's New Glenn maiden mission on Thursday, Jan. 16, from Cape Canaveral. Original story: Will ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Following a scrubbed launch attempt and weather-related delays, Blue Origin will once again try to send its New Glenn rocket into space for the ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two ...

Blue Origin announced late on Monday afternoon that it planned to make a second attempt to launch the New Glenn rocket at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Tuesday. But then, a couple of hours later ...