Blue Origin Reaches Orbit In New Glenn Inaugural Mission

New Glenn first launch
Credit: Miguel J. Rodríguez Carrillo/Getty Images
Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it failed to recover its first-stage booster in the ambitious inaugural flight of its New Glenn rocket on its NG-1 mission. The 321-ft.-tall rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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