Jan 16, 2025 · The pad is 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the company’s control centers and rocket factory, outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Blue Origin envisions six to eight New Glenn flights this year, with the next one coming up this spring. In a weekend interview, Bezos declined to disclose his personal investment in the program.

Jan 16, 2025 · Founded 25 years ago by Bezos, Blue Origin has been launching paying passengers to the edge of space since 2021, including himself. The short hops from Texas use smaller rockets named after the ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Both Blue Origin and Amazon were founded by Bezos, who has flown to suborbital space aboard the company's smaller New Shepard space tourism rocket. New Glenn is capable of carrying 50 tons (45 ...

Blue Origin was founded by Jeff Bezos with the vision of enabling a future where millions of people are living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.

Jan 16, 2025 · On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit. At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ...

Jan 13, 2025 · AP correspondent Julie Walker reports Jeff Bezos’ space company calls off it’s debut launch of massive new rocket. Bezos started the company 25 years ago. He took part in Monday’s countdown from Mission Control, located at the rocket factory just outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Dec 19, 2023 · Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully launched a rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its first flight since engine trouble caused a crash more than a year ago. The New Shepard rocket soared from West Texas, lifting a capsule full of tests, many of which were aboard the failed Blue Origin launch in September 2022.

Jul 20, 2021 · Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the spaceflight company Blue Origin, launched into suborbital space with three other people today (July 20) on the first crewed mission of the company's...

May 19, 2024 · Blue Origin, the space tourism and exploration firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, on Sunday launched six people into the edge of space from west Texas in its first crewed mission since the...

Jul 20, 2021 · This morning, as the sun climbed over a private spaceport in rural West Texas, a six-story-tall rocket lit its engines and lifted off, carrying a spacecraft with four people on board—the first...