On Saturday, May 5th, the InSight rover, led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), will launch atop a ULA Atlas V rocket to…. Mars! Not only is this the first interplanetary launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but this is the very first mission to study the interior of Mars, and the first […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches Another Flight Test With Eyes on Space Tourism
April 30, 2018
On Sunday afternoon, Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin launched an eighth suborbital test flight of their New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas at 12:06 PM Central time. The crew capsule part of the launch system reached 351,000 feet, 1,000 feet past their target reach. The vehicle used for this mission, known as Mission 8, was […]
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos started spaceflight and space tourism company Blue Origin to expand human presence in orbit and throughout the solar system. On December 12th, the company launched and landed its New Shepard suborbital rocket at a site in West Texas for the 7th time. Atop that New Shepard rocket was a new version […]
For the last six years, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight outfit Blue Origin has been developing a powerful new engine for deep space travel. For the first time, Blue Origin has conducted a successful test fire of that engine, the BE-4. The BE-4 is a successor to the BE-3 which powers Blue Origin’s New Shepard […]
One summer evening as I was staring up at the stars with some of my friends, I casually told them I couldn’t wait for the day that I could fly to space and sip a Starbucks latte on the moon. We all laughed at the possibility, but the more progress we make exploring the stars, […]
