News Archive / Tagged: Blue Origin

• Amazon signs contracts for 83 rocket launches

  Theresa CrossApril 12th, 2022

  Last week, Amazon announced one of the most significant rocket deals within the commercial space market in order to build its Kuiper internet constellation.

• New Shepard rocket roars off the pad on 20th mission

  Theresa CrossMarch 31st, 2022

  Blue Origin launched another six passengers aboard its New Shepard spacecraft -- the 20th flight of the rocket system and the fourth with people.

• Crypto pioneer Justin Sun to fly to space on New Shepard

  Theresa CrossDecember 23rd, 2021

  It has been revealed that Justin Sun won the winning bid for what was originally to be the first seat aboard Blue Origin’s inaugural New Shepard rocket with a human crew.

• Blue Origin launches six people on suborbital trip to space

  Theresa CrossDecember 12th, 2021

  Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket, taking "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan on the company's third crewed suborbital spaceflight.

• Three companies selected to develop commercial space stations

  Theresa CrossDecember 6th, 2021

  Last week, NASA signed agreements with three U.S. companies to develop private free-flying commercial space stations in low Earth orbit.

• Blue Origin lunar lander lawsuit dismissed by federal judge

  Derek RichardsonNovember 4th, 2021

  A United States Court of Federal Claims judge dismissed a lawsuit by Blue Origin versus NASA over the agency’s decision to award the Human Landing System contract solely to SpaceX.

• Blue Origin announces ‘Orbital Reef’ commercial space station

  Derek RichardsonOctober 26th, 2021

  In partnership with Sierra Space, Blue Origin announced plans for a commercial space station called 'Orbital Reef' to be built in low Earth orbit by the end of this decade.

• William Shatner, 90, makes brief trek to space

  Derek RichardsonOctober 13th, 2021

  Boldly going where fewer than 600 people have gone before, William Shatner of Star Trek fame, as well as three others, flew into space on Blue Origin’s second suborbital human spaceflight.

• William Shatner set for a brief trip to the final frontier

  Theresa CrossOctober 6th, 2021

  Blue Origin is set to perform its second human spaceflight later this month, and it's expected to send TV icon William Shatner into space.

• New Shepard rocket launches to test new space technologies

  Theresa CrossAugust 26th, 2021

  Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket flew its 17th mission, which was dedicated to testing payloads related to the future of space travel and lunar surface missions.

• Blue Origin suing NASA over Moon lander contract

  Theresa CrossAugust 17th, 2021

  Blue Origin has taken legal action against NASA in Federal court over the agency’s decision to award SpaceX a sole contract to build the agency’s Human Landing System as part of the Artemis program.

• Jeff Bezos touches space on 1st crewed flight of New Shepard

  Theresa CrossJuly 20th, 2021

  Blue Origin launched its first crewed New Shepard mission on a suborbital trajectory into space with billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three others.

• Wally Funk of the ‘Mercury 13’ to finally fly into space next week

  Theresa CrossJuly 13th, 2021

  On July 1, 2021, Blue Origin announced that Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13," would fly into space atop the company’s suborbital New Shepard rocket.

• Jeff Bezos to fly to space on 1st crewed New Shepard flight

  Theresa CrossJune 7th, 2021

  Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is going to space, along with his brother Mark Bezos, on the first crewed flight of the company's New Shepard suborbital rocket.

• Orbital space tourism poised to take off later this year

  Theresa CrossMay 26th, 2021

  Within a span of about six months, a dozen new spaceflight participants could fly into orbit on four space tourism flights beginning as early as September.