Blue Origin's NS-29 New Shepard rocket will launch on Jan. 28 at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT) if all goes well. Here's what to know

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first reported on an effort codenamed "Project Jarvis" to develop a stainless steel upper stage that could be reused. The company even built a test tank, although the effort was eventually shelved.

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

Blue Origin’s next flight will simulate the moon’s gravity and will fly 30 payloads, according to the company. The next New Shepard flight, NS-29, is scheduled for early next week. The launch window opens at 9 a.

Once a company dabbling only in "space tourism," Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin turned into an honest-to-goodness space company last week. In the early morning hours of Jan. 16, at 2:03 a.m. ET, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ship lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral,

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit.

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk's industry-leading SpaceX.

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos's space company as it aims ...

Blue Origin scored a major win with its New Glenn rocket launch, but SpaceX still leads the space industry with a Falcon fleet and upcoming Starship.

Live updates from Thursday morning's Blue Origin New Glenn first-ever mission that launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Lumbering off the launch pad from a billowing fiery cloud, Blue Origin's mighty 321-foot-tall New Glenn rocket hurtled into the history books early Thursday morning on its maiden mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The two-stage rocket lifted ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.