Suborbital Rocket News Today

Spains private space company PLD Space said on Saturday it had successfully launched the countrys first suborbital reusable rocket, Miura 1.

William Shatner said he's "thrilled" and "a little frightened" to fly on Blue Origin's rocket. Some employees say the flight isn't safe enough.

About 1% of US human spaceflights have ended in a fatal accident, but the New Shepard rocket seems relatively safe.

Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images; Blue Origin Bezos, his brother, and an auction winner will experience weightlessness for three minutes. This spaceflight will be unlike any prior US launch, with no pilot and possibly no spacesuits. Jeff Bezos is preparing to rocket into space on July 20, but he wont be there for very long. With Earth shining outside the windows, Bezos will float around the cabin of his companys New Shepard spaceship for just three minutes before h...

The 14th launch of a New Shepard rocket will send a space capsule past the edge of space to test the system ahead of its first passenger flights.

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Man blasting off successfully and safely to the edge of space aboard the "new shepard," a suborbital rocket built by his space company blue origin. >> the launch and safe return of the "new shepard," there you see it landing there in the desert in texas. "new shepard" name for alan shepard, the first american in space. a pivotal moment for the space industry, potentially. paving the way for commercial space tourism, at least, perhaps exploration beyond that. next hour we do expect to hear from b...