Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches giant New Glenn rocket on 1st …
Jan 16, 2025 · Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is a 320-foot heavy-lift launch vehicle that rivals SpaceX's 400-foot Starship in size. Its first stage, powered by...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket | AP …
Jan 16, 2025 · New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn’s launch site, rebuilding historic Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pad is 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the company’s control centers and rocket factory, outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. ...
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
Jan 16, 2025 · New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn’s launch site, rebuilding historic Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pad is 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the company’s control centers and rocket factory, outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. ...
New Glenn | Blue Origin
New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. The rocket is engineered with the safety and redundancy required to fly humans, and will enable our vision of building a road to space for the benefit of Earth.
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn Rocket Lifts Off on First Flight
Jan 16, 2025 · New Glenn, named after the astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off early Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Highlights: Blue Origin’s New Glenn reaches orbit on maiden …
Jan 16, 2025 · New Glenn’s namesake, storied NASA astronaut and US Senator John Glenn, died in 2016. But before his passing, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos got a chance to tell him about the orbital class ...
Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket, the company’s first …
Jan 16, 2025 · The debut flight of New Glenn, the company’s first rocket powerful enough to launch satellites to space, took off after 2 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Five things to know about New Glenn, Blue Origin's new rocket
Jan 11, 2025 · New Glenn honors a legendary astronaut: John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth in 1962. It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
New Glenn launch signals new era for Space Launch Complex 36
Jan 16, 2025 · The orbital-class rocket, named after John Glenn – the first American to orbit Earth–marked the first launch from Space Launch Complex 36 in 20 years. SLC-36, originally built to support the Atlas-Centaur family of launch vehicles in 1961, was decommissioned and its facilities dismantled after its final Atlas launch in 2005.
Blue Origin Launches New Glenn Rocket - The New York Times
Jan 16, 2025 · New Glenn, named after the astronaut John Glenn, successfully lifted off early Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Liftoff.