The mission is the 14th human flight for New Shepard and the 34th in its history overall. The spacecraft will liftoff from a ...

Blue Origin and Shift4 now support crypto space payments, letting customers use Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana for New Shepard ...

The New Shepard booster is expected to return to Earth for a vertical landing on a pad near its launch site in West Texas about 7.5 minutes after liftoff, while the capsule and crew will parachute ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard follows Shepard's suborbital flight path, yet it does not fly as high as Shepard's flight. New Shepard flies to just more than 65 miles above sea level, which is above ...

Here’s how it works. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle suffered an anomaly during an uncrewed launch on Sept. 12, 2022.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin expects to return its New Shepard rocket to flight by the end of 2023 after the vehicle suffered a mid-flight failure in September, a company sales executive said on Wednesday.

No humans were aboard, though New Shepard has previously flown several missions carrying tourists, as well as Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, on the rocket’s maiden flight in 2021.

On January 23, 2016, Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket again, after its previous flight in late 2015. This marked the first time a booster had flown into space, landed vertically, and re ...

New Shepard launches to an altitude of roughly 63 miles, a widely recognized marker of where space begins and known as the Kármán line. At peak altitude, the booster rocket releases its crewed ...

Update for 12:18 am ET: Blue Origin has scrubbed Thursday's launch attempt of the NS-13 New Shepard launch due to a payload power supply issue. A new launch date will be announced once available.

New Shepard isn’t the first commercial rocket to be turned into a model rocket: A decade ago, Estes sold SpaceShipOne model rockets that paid tribute to that rocket plane’s history-making ...

A year ago, Blue Origin executives had thought New Shepard would be taking on crewed suborbital flights by now — but that was before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Coronavirus complications added to ...