Blue Origin

The company’s VMS Eve mothership and VSS Unity spacecraft took off Thursday morning from Spaceport America.

First flight for paying customers comes as Blue Origin’s New Shepard remains sidelined.

Agency last year picked SpaceX to provide a lander for first missions to the lunar surface.

“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” tweeted Blue Origin in response to the first launch mishap for Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company. This morning the capsule carrying scientific experiments but no people, separated from the New Shepard rocket using the emergency mechanism. The capsule returned to Earth, but the rocket, […]

If you can’t afford the ride, stream the video.

Shatner in Space, documenting the actor’s Blue Origin spaceflight, is now available on Amazon’s Prime Video service.

Blue Origin is set to launch its next crewed mission, NS-20, featuring an all-civilian passenger crew. The launch, scheduled for Thursday morning, will mark the 20th spaceflight for the New Shepard missions. It was originally slated for Tuesday but was postponed due to forecasted high winds. Jeff Bezos’ commercial space company has set many records throughout […]

New Shepard chief architect Gary Lai is set to join the NS-20 crew on March 29.

Company delays the flight by a week and is expected to announce a replacement for SNL comedian soon.

Davidson and five other customers will ride on Blue Origin’s fourth crewed-launch.