For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...
On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...
Related: John Glenn: America's 1st space hero At the time Glenn wrote his letter, the only commercial rocket to launch, land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital booster.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is meant to shuttle cargo, satellites, and, in the future, people into space. The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth ...
On this day 39 years ago, all eyes were on the sky when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after it launched.
called New Glenn, its name honoring US space legend John Glenn. Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in ...
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at ...
Landing and reusing boosters are critical to reducing costs in the commercial space industry, a feat pioneered by SpaceX’s ...
Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.