Bollinger Shipyards, a Louisiana-based builder of vessels for commercial, government and military customers, is aiming for ...

Blue Origin The abort motor quickly pushed the crew capsule away from the New Shepard booster. Bezos wrote earlier this month that he expected the abort motor’s exhaust plume to destabilize the ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and capsule blast off from the company's West Texas launch site Thursday, carrying an international six-member crew on a 10-minute flight to the edge of space and ...

Blue Origin later revealed that the cause of the failure was a problem with the engine nozzle, a large cone that directs the flaming exhaust at the rocket’s bottom. Onboard computers accurately ...

Blue Origin later revealed that the cause of the failure was a problem with the engine nozzle, a large cone that directs the flaming exhaust at the rocket’s bottom.

Blue Origin later revealed that the cause of the failure was a problem with the engine nozzle, a large cone that directs the flaming exhaust at the rocket’s bottom.

Blue Origin tested out this motor once before during a test launch in October 2016, fully expecting the motor to destroy the booster. When the motor ignites, it slams the booster with 70,000 ...

Blue Origin promised, ... "The capsule escape motor will slam the booster with 70,000 pounds of off-axis force delivered by searing hot exhaust," he explained in the Sept. 8 newsletter.

Private space company Blue Origin is retrofitting an Apollo-era test stand in Alabama to test new engines it is developing, but that stand turned out to be a bigger challenge than the company thought.