"The team has completed Flight Readiness Review and confirmed ... will get to fly on the rocket named after her father. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the fifth person to ever ...

Jeff Bezos Blue Origin has launched its massive new rocket on first test flight from Florida. Named after the first American ...

Elon Musk congratulated Jeff Bezos following Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully reaching orbit on its first flight, ...

Blue Origin hopes New Glenn will make it safely to orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in ...

On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry ...

(New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space.) The shuttle flight made Glenn the oldest person to reach the final frontier, though he no longer holds that record.

In an Instagram post, Mr Bezos said space flight was something he had wanted ... It is named after Alan Shepard, the second person and first US citizen to fly into space. According to Blue ...

New Glenn, developed by the private space firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is on the pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ...

For flight No. 2, they joined four new ... Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American in space for whom the rocket is named. 'Our understanding of the ...

It is named after Alan Shepard, the second person and first US citizen to fly into space. The first crewed flight comes just weeks after Mr Bezos plans to step down as CEO of Amazon. Instead he ...