After abruptly calling off its first launch attempt in the early hours of Monday morning, Blue Origin notched a historic success with its first orbital rocket.
Blue Origin says this rocket—named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth—can carry almost 50 tons of payload to low Earth orbit and put more than 14 tons into geostationary ...
Named after John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit, New Glenn is designed to be that rocket. At that point, the second stage’s three engines light up, taking the rocket the rest of the ...