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 ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is laying off about 1,400 employees, or about 10% of its ...

Despite the successful maiden flight of the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket, Blue Origin boss Dave Limp has announced mass ...

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 ...

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin LLC is cutting about 10% of its workforce, a significant pullback aimed at slashing ...

“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 ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch ...

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 ...

Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", the film follows these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's ...

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 ...