Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Reaches Orbit: What It Means For Space Exploration
Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket—a reusable sub-orbital rocket used for space tourism—27 times. It's named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Bezos flew in New Shepard on ...
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John Glenn Fast Facts
January 1964 – Resigns from NASA’s astronaut program ... as their daughter Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes successful heart ...
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Watch Bezos’ new super rocket blast its engines. It's about to launch.
The rocket, which stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first person to orbit Earth in 1962. Though much shorter than SpaceX's towering Starship ...
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Space and Astronomy
NASA said it would do that “as soon as ... New Glenn, named after the astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off early Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller ... Blue Origin's lander, dubbed Blue Moon, will make its debut on the third lunar touchdown by astronauts. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson ...
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company is slashing 10% of its workforce a month after debut orbital launch
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is cutting 10% of its workforce. The move comes just a month after the debut of Blue ...
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Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn ... Ariane 6 and NASA’s Space Launch System or SLS, the space agency’s successor to the Saturn V for sending astronauts to the ...