RSS First Step – Spaceflight Now

May 20, 2022

Breaking News

[ May 19, 2022 ] Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket sends Starliner toward space station Atlas 5
[ May 18, 2022 ] Atlas 5 rocket and Starliner capsule return to Florida launch pad Atlas 5
[ May 18, 2022 ] Starliner astronauts eager to see results from crew capsule test flight Atlas 5
[ May 18, 2022 ] SpaceX launches third Starlink mission in five days Falcon 9
[ May 18, 2022 ] Live coverage: SpaceX rocket, Starlink satellites launch from pad 39A Falcon 9

Bezos’s Blue Origin auctions seat on first New Shepard spaceflight with passengers

May 7, 2021

Blue Origin plans to begin crew flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft on July 20, launching the highest bidder in an online auction out of the atmosphere and into space for a few minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before returning to Earth.

Blue Origin tests passenger accommodations on suborbital launch

January 14, 2021

Blue Origin says it is “very, very close” to flying humans on suborbital launches to the edge of space after a successful test flight of a human-capable rocket and capsule Thursday.