RSS First Step – Spaceflight Now

September 27, 2022

Breaking News

[ September 26, 2022 ] Live coverage: NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slams into asteroid Mission Reports
[ September 26, 2022 ] Hurricane Ian prompts NASA to move Artemis moon rocket back to its hangar Artemis
[ September 25, 2022 ] NASA spacecraft on track for asteroid deflection experiment Mission Reports
[ September 24, 2022 ] Delta 4-Heavy rocket deploys spysat on final planned mission from ‘Slick Six’ Delta 4
[ September 24, 2022 ] SpaceX launches another successful Starlink mission from Florida 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.