Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio ...

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 ...

“This Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Glenn Research Center represents a pivotal milestone for Blue Abyss,” CEO John Vickers said in a statement. “As we develop next-generation ...

Blue Origin, meanwhile, has launched tourists to the edge of space nine times already, using its New Shepard suborbital rockets. The company successfully test-flew its first orbital-class rocket, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.

we heard a readout of a touching message sent by the late John Glenn to Jeff Bezos. New Glenn's namesake was the first American to orbit the Earth and became the then-oldest person in space when ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company has blasted its first ... a major step forward for the business. The New Glenn rocket was named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit ...

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket is named after space pioneer John Glenn, who was the first American to orbit Earth. The reusable rocket is designed to carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder spacecraft in ...

The short hops from Texas use smaller rockets named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion ...

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 ...