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Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space, including oldest astronaut

WASHINGTON — After a nearly two year hiatus, Blue Origin flew adventurers to space on Sunday, including a former Air Force pilot who was denied the chance to be the United States' first Black astronaut decades ago.

It was the first crewed launch for the enterprise owned and founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as the sole operator in the fledgling suborbital tourism market.

Six people including the sculptor Ed Dwight, who was on track to become NASA's first ever astronaut of color in the 1960s before being controversially spurned, launched around 9:36 a.m. local time (1436 GMT) from the Launch Site One base in west Texas, a live feed showed....

May 19, 2024

Blue Origin to fly thrill seekers to space after two year hiatus

Washington (AFP) - Blue Origin is set to fly adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, reigniting competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold. Six people including Black sculptor and former Air Force pilot Ed Dwight, who was controversially spurned by NASA's astronaut corps in the 1960s, will blast off at around 8:30 am local time (1330 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas. Dwight -- at 90 years, 8 months and 10 days -- is set to become the oldest person to go to space, narrowly......

May 19, 2024

Blue Origin’s new crane at Port Canaveral another piece to future launch puzzle

PORT CANAVERAL — Blue Origin has staked out its space at Port Canaveral, right next to SpaceX, with a tower crane for eventual rocket booster recovery operations. Now the company just needs to launch one to put it to work. The crane arrived at the port as cargo from Germany in October adding another puzzle piece to Jeff Bezos’ plans to send up its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36. “It’s now the highest point in our Port Canaveral as a whole,” said Port Canaveral CEO Capt. John Murray at a port authority meeting last month. “It’s a very, ve......

Nov 09, 2023

Elon Musk's SpaceX wins the bidding rights for historic NASA launch pad

In a battle of technology titans for the right to lease a historic NASA launch pad in Florida, SpaceX has beat out competitor Blue Origin, the US space agency said Friday.

Dec 13, 2013

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