The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will launch a NASA spacecraft ... though New Glenn’s first-stage booster is 188 feet tall compared to New Shepard’s 54-foot booster, the landing zone ...

Blue Origin’s experience involves launching inside a six-seat capsule atop a single-stage, suborbital New Shepard rocket ... Earth in a parachute-assisted landing close to the launch site ...

Just like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, the New Shepard is designed to land independently, with the booster touching down on a landing pad ... as the RSS First Step spacecraft returned to Earth.

Powered by a single-stage, hydrogen-fueled rocket ... capsule on its way, the reusable booster fell back to the Texas launch site, touching down safely on a concrete landing pad. The New Shepard ...

For the eighth time, Blue Origin will launch a crew on a suborbital (up and down) spaceflight aboard its New Shepard spacecraft from ... come down and do a soft landing with three parachutes ...