Related: John Glenn: America's 1st space hero At the time Glenn wrote his letter, the only commercial rocket to launch, land and be reused was Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital booster.

The New Glenn makes it safely into orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in Elon Musk's ...

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in ... said recently. John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, where he founded the Space Policy Institute ...

Jul 14, 2019 Jul 14, 2019 Updated Jul 15, 2019 The late Alan Shepard of Derry ... “The Right Stuff,” Shepard became the first American to travel in space.

New Shepard is a reusable rocket-capsule combo named after Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space. The vehicle is best known for carrying paying customers on brief trips to suborbital space.

Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the fifth person to ever walk on the Moon. According to Blue Origin, she has "dedicated her life to promoting what her father started." Four other ...

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space project explained as New Glenn rocket lift-off is delayed - The reusable spacecraft had been ...

Blue Origin's fully stacked New Glenn ... known as New Shepard out of Van Horn, Texas. That single stage rocket mimics the flight of Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is headed to space after being given the ... Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the rocket is designed for a minimum of 25 flights ...