Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, who is paralyzed from the waist down, flew to space on Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket. She launched from West Texas.

A Blue Origin rocket is set to launch a history-making flight made possible by an ex-employee of the company’s biggest rival.

The crew includes a physicist from Florida and a German aerospace engineer who could become the first person who uses a wheelchair to reach space. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space exploration company, was forced to cancel the highly anticipated debut launch of its New Glenn rocket early Monday due to a technical issue. The 320-foot orbital-class ...

The New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch from West Texas on Thursday, December 18. The suborbital flight will last about 11 minutes, offering passengers a few minutes of weightlessness. Other ...

In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

Benthaus is among six passengers selected to ride on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, scheduled to get off the ground from West Texas on its 37th spaceflight. The passengers of NS-37 would join 80 ...

Blue Origin will make history by carrying a person who uses a wheelchair on its next space launch. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, who was injured in a mountain biking accident in 2018, is expected to ...

Update: Blue Origin opted to stand down from its Dec. 18 launch attempt due to "an issue with our built-in checks prior to the flight," the company announced. The launch is now being targeted for 8 ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Thursday stuck the landing of its reusable first-stage booster from its massive New Glenn rocket, providing the world much needed competition for Elon Musk’s SpaceX. After ...

This Thursday, Blue Origin successfully launched a pair of NASA spacecraft atop a New Glenn rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The two spacecraft will study Mars' magnetic field ...

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