Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New Glenn could lift off as early as next week.
New Glenn, a massive heavy-payload Blue Origin rocket, had its launch window moved back at least a couple of days.
The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.
John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue Origin named its first orbital-class rocket after him.
Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida following a hold-up on Monday.
Founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos ... New Glenn is named after the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn. It is five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying ...
The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, will include an attempt to land New ...