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.

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 ...

Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang first reported on Blue Origin’s plans for space in 2010. transcript New Glenn, named after the astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off early Thursday morning ...

A public hearing on a study of noise from flight operations at John Glenn Columbus International Airport will be held ...

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 ...

called New Glenn, its name honoring US space legend John Glenn. Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in ...

John Glenn. It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Liftoff. All seven engines at full thrust. One minute into flight. Now passing one minute 30 seconds into flight. Passing mach one. New Glenn is now supersonic. New Glenn, named ...

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 ...

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 ...