Blue Origin announced the pause of its New Shepard flights and shift resources to further accelerate development of human lunar capabilities.

In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, a short suborbital mission that proved humans could survive launch, weightlessness, and reentry. Behind the calm headlines was Project ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced plans to pause its New Shepard human spaceflights for at least two years to focus on developing a lunar lander.

Blue Origin has launched the last of its New Shepard flights for no less than 2 years, according to their website. This comes after a decision to dedicate their forthcoming efforts mainly towards ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced ...

Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...

Live updates from NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 astronaut liftoff aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday, Feb. 13, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman took charge of the U.S. civilian space agency on Dec. 18. At his first news conference, he announced that SpaceX Crew-11 was leaving the International Space Station ...

Blue Origin is pausing its New Shepard space tourism flights for at least two years from Launch Site One in rural West Texas. The company is shifting its focus to developing a lunar lander for NASA's ...

Blue Origin on Friday said it was "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years, effectively cancelling the company's space tourism vehicle.

The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts. By Kenneth Chang The ...