While New Shepard is best known as a space tourist vehicle, 19 of its 28 flights to date have been uncrewed. The reusable ...

"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part ...

Blue Origin said that after breaching the Karman Line, nearly 100 kilometers above Earth, the payload will experience at ...

New Shepard is a reusable rocket-capsule combo named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. The vehicle is best known for carrying paying customers on brief trips to suborbital space.

EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM) — Blue Origin is preparing for its latest launch. This one, set for Tuesday morning, is intended to ...

The New Shepard launch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 at 11 am EST / 10 am local time at Blue Origin’s Test Site One, ...

The launch window for the New Shepard flight, NS-29, opened at 9 a.m. MT/11 a.m. ET at Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, ...

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

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 ...

A turtle logo is also stamped onto a New Shepard spacecraft after every mission. This is a reference to one of Aesop's Fables, "The Tortoise and the Hare," in which the slow and steady tortoise ...