LAKE TYLER, Texas (KETK) – The Jonathan Holland and Addison Shepherd Memorial Bass Tournament took off at the Boulders at Lake Tyler on Saturday. Winnsboro ISD student dies after passing out at bass tournament weigh-in “We had 39 boats that registered for the tournament,” Jonathan Holland’s mother Karen Holland said. After losing her son Jonathan and […]
Blue Origin’s nearly two-year human spaceflight drought is over. Jeff Bezos‘ aerospace company launched its NS-25 mission today (May 19), sending six people — including the United States’ first-ever Black astronaut candidate — on a brief trip to suborbital space aboard its New Shepard rocket-capsule combo. It was Blue Origin‘s first space tourism launch since […]
We now know who will be on board for Blue Origin’s first crewed spaceflight since August 2022. Today (April 4), Jeff Bezos‘ company announced the six crewmembers for the NS-25 space tourism mission, which will lift off from Blue Origin‘s West Texas site in the relatively near future. (The target date has not yet been […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket lifted off from Texas on Tuesday carrying research payloads, a company live stream showed, in its first mission since a failure last year led to a 15-month grounding. New Shepard, the company’s only active rocket that can carry humans and cargo on short trips […]
Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, successfully launched an unpiloted New Shepard capsule to the edge of space and back Tuesday, the first flight of the sub-orbital spacecraft since a booster failure last year triggered a dramatic abort. No passengers were on board for the 2022 flight and while the booster […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — successfully launched Tuesday morning on an uncrewed science mission. The New Shepard rocket lifted off at 11:43 […]
Blue Origin’s first mission in more than 15 months was officially delayed on Monday (Dec. 18) after a last-minute scrub. Blue Origin‘s New Shepard suborbital vehicle was originally supposed to lift off as early as 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT or 8:30 a.m. EST) on Monday. Following a one-hour delay due to cold temperatures at […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) –Jeff Bezos‘ space company Blue Origin called off a return-to-flight mission with its suborbital New Shepard rocket in Texas over what it described as a ground system issue encountered during preparations for liftoff, the company said. “We’re scrubbing #NS24 today due to a ground system issue the team is troubleshooting,” […]