On Oct. 29, 1998, space shuttle Discovery carried 77-year-old John Glenn, the oldest shuttle astronaut, back into space. Glenn, an original Mercury 7 astronaut and the first American to orbit ...

transcript 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. All seven ...

Blue Origin made two adjustments in quick succession to its schedule for launching its New Glenn rocket to orbit for the first time.

Three years into the design and development effort, Bezos made a splash when he announced that the orbital-class rocket, named after pioneering NASA astronaut John Glenn, would be built at a ...

A public hearing on a study of noise from flight operations at John Glenn Columbus International Airport will be held ...

Even without recovering New Glenn’s reusable booster, Blue Origin has joined the ranks of commercial companies with rockets able to launch into orbit.

New Glenn is named after the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn. It's five times taller than Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas.

The 320-foot New Glenn orbital-class rocket -- named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth -- is set to transport to space a payload of the Blue Ring Pathfinder, which is designed to ...

Named for the astronaut John Glenn, it is a far larger and more powerful vehicle than Blue Origin’s existing New Shepherd rocket, which has been used to carry paying customers to the edge of orbit.

Not only did construction on the airport's new $2 billion terminal kick off ahead of schedule, but Columbus' passenger airports saw more air travelers than pre-pandemic, marking a new record. 2024 was ...

The new rocket, named after famed NASA Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn, is designed to carry payloads of up to 13 metric tons (14.3 tons) to geostationary transfer orbit and up to 45 metric tons ...