Traveling to space is a dream come true for many people. There are only six hundred certified astronauts, some of which have never experienced an actual trip to space. Space travel is for an elite group. Richard Branson wants to make the elite experience possible for...
As founder Jeff Bezos emerged triumphantly from the capsule of Blue Origin’s Mission NS-16, the company’s first crewed space flight, many assertions were at once validated, including the notion that not only is reusable rocket technology here to stay, but without it,...
With rockets, space exploration is possible. Rockets allow us to go up into the virtually unknown parts of the universe and see what is there. Since the invention of the first rocket, we have seen the growth and development of newer, more advanced rockets. The...
2021 has been a historic year for Blue Origin. Its New Shepard rocket program shuttled Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos past the accepted boundary of space and then followed this maiden crewed mission with another one a few months later. Much has been made about the...
With not one but multiple crewed space missions surpassing the Kármán Line and safely returning to earth for future reuse, 2021 will go down as a landmark year for Blue Origin and its New Shepard rocket program. But given the competitive nature of the space industry...