For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, achieved his lifelong dream Tuesday morning July 20 when he soared to the edge of space on the history making 1st human flight aboard his company’s New Shepard suborbital commercial rocket and capsule built by Blue Origin – the rocket company he founded and financed
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – 82-year-old Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, is all set, ready and willing to fly to space at last after she was chosen by Billionaire Jeff Bezos to fly with him as an honored guest and crew member aboard Blue Origin’s first New Shepard human flight to space on his company’s history making New
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Billionaire Richard Branson is all set to soar to the edge of space Sunday morning, July 11, on the private rocket powered Virgin Galactic spaceplane that was designed and developed by the rocket company he founded and financed using billions of his own dollars, on a suborbital test flight with a crew
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, announced Monday, June 7, he will fly aboard the 1st crew flight with humans to space of his company’s New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle and capsule this July to the edge of space – and he’s invited his
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin successfully completed the launch and landing of their astronaut rehearsal test simulating crew flights with humans with their suborbital New Shepard launch vehicle and capsule during the NS-15 test flight mission Wednesday, April 14 from the company’s West Texas test site. Liftoff of the 60-foot-tall (18-meter) New Shepard suborbital vehicle
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Blue Origin plans to conduct an astronaut rehearsal test simulating flights with humans for the next flight of their New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle during a launch targeted for Wednesday morning, April 14 from the company’s West Texas test site. Liftoff of the New Shepard suborbital vehicle on the NS-15 mission is
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The Blue Origin National team of four US aerospace companies has delivered a full scale engineering mockup of their proposed human lunar lander to NASA’s Johnson Space Center as party of NASA’s ambitious Artemis moon program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024. The Artemis Human Landing System (HLS) lander
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Marking a significant step forward in landing Americans on the Moon by 2024 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the selection of three U.S. companies – Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics – to design and develop the critical human landing systems (HLS) under the agency’s Artemis moon landing program. Blue Origin won by
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- The race to develop a human lunar lander for NASA’s new Artemis program to a great leap forward this week when Blue Origin’s founder billionaire Jeff Bezos announced the formation of a ‘national team’ of four highly experienced US industrial giants – including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Draper Labs and Blue Origin –