It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon's Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in ...

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in ... Image Jeff Bezos announcing the Blue Origin New Shepard space system in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2017.Credit ...

Blue Origin’s suborbital space tourism rocket, “New Shepard,” is named for Alan Shepard, who was a member of NASA’s first astronaut class and in 1961 became the first American to travel to ...