made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn. Here are five key things to know about the heavy-lift vehicle aiming to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the ...

the New Glenn rocket is visible as a faint streak crossing the image from the bottom right to the upper left. “This was not an easy photograph to take,” Pettit wrote, adding that the space ...

The roughly 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn is not only the first Blue Origin rocket designed to be capable of hauling satellites to space, it’s also among the most powerful in the world.

The New Glenn rocket, designed by billionaire Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin, will take off for the first time this Friday, January 10, marking a significant milestone in private space exploration.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Over the course of just a few hours today, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture made two ...

called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at 2:03 a.m. ET on January 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and crossed the official boundary into space a few minutes later.

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on Sunday night at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit...Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images Blue Origin’s New Glenn ...

Jan. 15 (UPI) --Blue Origin successfully launched its two-stage heavy-lift New Glenn rocket on its unmanned maiden voyage into space early Thursday, achieving the mission's primary goal of ...

Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos' space company. New Glenn thundered off the launchpad in the early morning ...