For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin simulated lunar gravity conditions today (Feb. 4) during the 29th launch of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle.

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An uncrewed New Shepard rocket is now expected to launch the so-called NS-29 mission on Tuesday (Feb. 4) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas. The mission will launch 30 different ...

While New Shepard is best known as a space tourist vehicle, 19 of its 28 flights to date have been uncrewed. The reusable rocket-capsule combo last flew people on Nov. 22, a mission that sent "The ...

The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Jan. 28, but called off that try due to uncooperative weather and an issue with the rocket's avionics.

Blue Origin scrubbed a planned launch of its New Shepard rocket Tuesday due to persistent cloud cover at the west Texas launch site. In a post on social media, the company said an additional issue ...

The New Shepard flew 15 times without a crew beginning in 2012 before Bezos joined the first crewed flight in 2021 to ride atop the rocket as part of NS-16. The spacecraft's most recent flight ...

Last week, Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket—equipped with 30 payloads from NASA and other partners—simulated the moon’s gravity for two minutes during a suborbital flight.

Video of the uncrewed launch, which Blue Origin livestreamed, shows the New Shepard climbing to the edge of space, where the capsule separated from the rocket to pull off the feat for the first ...