New Shepard alternates between flying passengers and experiments on short space hops. Blue Origin’s much bigger orbital ...

Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rivals SpaceX's 400-foot Starship in size. Its first ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s ... Failure is necessary to achieve eventual success. Success for the Starship and the New Glenn will open the moon, Mars and beyond to ...

Bigger than New Glenn (120 meters tall versus 98) and with a wider faring to encapsulate cargo (9 meters versus 7), SpaceX's Starship will boast a massive payload advantage over Blue Origin's new ...

or gets its new Starship rocket operational, it will be trying to sell customers on a rocket that costs the same as Blue Origin's New Glenn, but carries only half as much cargo. To help make that ...

On January 16, 2025, Blue Origin successfully conducted the inaugural flight of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A few hours later, SpaceX launched a seventh Starship in a ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket blasted off on its inaugural test flight, and SpaceX launched the seventh test of Starship. When the day was done, though, both events suffered failures, acting as ...