RSS First Step – Spaceflight Now

May 11, 2021

Breaking News

[ May 10, 2021 ] NASA, Axiom sign agreements moving ahead with first commercial station visit Mission Reports
[ May 10, 2021 ] NASA chief criticizes China for uncontrolled rocket re-entry Mission Reports
[ May 9, 2021 ] SpaceX reaches rocket reuse milestone on Starlink launch Falcon 9
[ May 8, 2021 ] Live coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ May 8, 2021 ] SpaceX ready to break another rocket reuse record with launch early Sunday 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.