For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin has revealed a target time-frame for its next New Glenn rocket mission, and it really wants to achieve something it failed at the first time around.

1944 – Flies 59 combat missions during his World War II service ... their daughter Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes successful ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of reducing ...

Dubbed the NG-1 mission, Blue Origin encountered weather ... The 320-foot New Glenn rocket is named after space pioneer John Glenn, who was the first American to orbit Earth.

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator.PersonalBirth ...

The rocket was named to honor the late John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. Originally the company was aiming for the audacious feat of flying NASA's "ESCAPADE" mission to Mars on ...