When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Named in honor of NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, New Glenn is Blue Origin's 322-foot-tall two-stage ...

On February 20, 1962, NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third ...

Blue Origin notched a major milestone Thursday as its massive New Glenn rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and successfully sent a pair of NASA spacecraft on their long trajectory toward Mars — ...

Update: Blue Origin has postponed the launch indefinitely due to "highly elevated solar activity," the company said in a social media post. The next opportunity for a launch window is being assessed.

CAPE CANAVERAL — Bad weather on Earth was blamed for the first launch scrub of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket Sunday, while bad space weather was the reason behind a scrub for a planned Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive solar storm that unleashed views of the northern lights across the United States is also now responsible for foiling the ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn's spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...