Related: John Glenn: America's 1st space hero At the time Glenn wrote his letter, the only commercial rocket to launch, land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital booster.

Rockets launch from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida, which is an hour east of Orlando theme parks. New Glenn is named for John Glenn. Blue Origin aims to land the first-stage ...

Blue Origin's multi-mission space mobility platform. In January 2024, Trevor Brown, dean of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University in Columbus, recalled the same ...