Bezos plans to compete directly with SpaceX's rockets, the company owned by his rival Elon Musk, with the New Glenn rocket, named in honor of John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to orbit the Earth.

The rocket is built to haul spacecraft and eventually ... New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn’s launch site ...

The rocket, which stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, is named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first person to orbit Earth in 1962. Though much shorter than SpaceX's towering Starship ...

Called New Glenn after John Glenn - the first American to orbit the earth - this rocket was a big moment for Blue Origin as will be its first launch into orbit, as our science correspondent Pallab ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

The rocket is built to haul spacecraft and eventually ... New Glenn, which honors John Glenn, is five times taller. Blue Origin poured more than $1 billion into New Glenn's launch site, rebuilding ...