A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch from West Texas. The New Shepard vehicle was developed by billionaire Jeff ...

which run on liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen. Shortly after launch, the first stage is supposed to detach and autonomously land upright on a sea-based platform, where Blue Origin can then ...

After two hours and nine minutes, the launch director at Blue Origin, the private spaceflight ... started flowing into New Glenn’s propellant tanks. At 10 minutes before liftoff time, the ...

The rocket has a reusable first stage that contains Blue Origin's BE-4 engines fueled by a mixture of liquid natural gas and liquid oxygen. The New Glenn's upper stage is powered by Blue Origin's ...

Blue Origin began filling the vehicle’s fuel tanks with liquid methane, hydrogen and oxygen late Sunday evening. “From there, we’re going to assess…what are the things we might want to get ...

The rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane and is designed to be partially reusable, as Blue Origin aims to launch, land and re-launch each booster as many as 25 times. In terms of ...

Blue Origin ... if Blue Origin actually had the technical capability,” said Todd Harrison, a space policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.