The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent ... The seven-engine, 320-foot New Glenn rocket — named for late astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the planet — blasted off a NASA launch ...

Jeff Bezos' space company will try again to launch ... while the rocket's second stage continues toward orbit. Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth in 1962, New Glenn has ...

Jeff Bezos announced in 2016 the program to develop this large launcher, whose first inaugural flight was set for 2020 but faced delays. With the New Glenn, named in honor of John Glenn ...

Bezos plans to compete directly with SpaceX's rockets, the company owned by his rival Elon Musk, with the New Glenn rocket, named in honor of John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to orbit the Earth.

Jeff Bezos' space company ... Named after astronaut John Glenn, the 320-foot rocket is designed to be partially reusable. Although the booster stage missed its landing on a barge in the Atlantic ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is headed ... Here’s to NG-1 -- we are really close, folks." Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the rocket is designed for ...

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Jeff Bezos has moved to introduce a tough Amazon-like approach to his rocket maker Blue Origin, as the world’s third-richest ...

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from ... Years in the making with heavy funding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the 320-foot (98-meter) rocket carried ...