(AP) — Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday ... Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than ...

The New Glenn rocket was seen soaring into the sky above Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday after its earlier scheduled ...

Named New Glenn after legendary astronaut John Glenn, the rocket stands at 320 ... The launch had been viewed as a critical test for whether Blue Origin can emerge as a serious competitor to ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

Test pilots have an opportunity ... achieving the goal is worth it in the end. John McDermott is a student at Northwestern University. He is also a student pilot with hopes of flying for the ...

Charges against former John Glenn High School football coach John Barron have been dropped. Barron had been charged with one count of battery, stemming from accusations by former female students ...

With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch Alliance and the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn ... will be commander and pilot, respectively. This Starliner previously flew on Boeing ...

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 ...