Blue Origin paused its space tourism flights to focus on its lunar lander and New Glenn launches in Florida, creating an opening for Virgin Galactic.

Blue Origin announced the pause of its New Shepard flights and shift resources to further accelerate development of human lunar capabilities.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin won't be launching any space tourists high above Earth's atmosphere anytime soon. Though Blue Origin said in a press ...

Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket on January 22, 2026, successfully sending six private astronauts on a suborbital joyride above the Kármán Line. The NS-38 mission, the company’s 38th for ...

The flight took place on Saturday morning, when a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule lifted off from the company’s launch site near Van Horn, Texas. The mission, known as NS-37, was the company’s 16th ...

Blue Origin successfully launched its 38th New Shepard flight into space on Thursday. The flight took off from West Texas before landing safely roughly 10 minutes later. "We just completed our 38th ...

Blue Origin is suspending its New Shepard flights for at least two years. The aerospace company, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, said Friday it plans to shift resources toward its programs focused on ...

Blue Origin is pausing its West Texas flights for at least two years so it can focus on helping NASA return humans to the moon. The company's suborbital rocket began launching people in 2021 and has ...

It was five years ago when Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin started flying people to space on board the New Shepard rocket, and since then, 98 humans have been briefly taken beyond the Karman ...