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America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally flew. Now it’s time to make more

Ed Dwight thought he would be an astronaut six decades ago, back when President John F. Kennedy’s administration, in its push for the moon,...

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Blue Origin launches New Shepard rocket on return to flight mission

Updated 3:11 p.m. EST: Added comments and additional mission information from Blue Origin. Blue Origin appears to be back in the suborbital business. Under a...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket set for return to flight mission

After more than a year of being sidelined, Blue Origin is preparing for a resurgence of its New Shepard rocket suborbital flights. In a social...

Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has unveiled a full-sized mockup of an uncrewed version of its Blue Moon lunar lander that will test technologies intended...

Commercial space companies say cut red tape or U.S. will lose its lead in spaceflight

The three companies who have flown people to space and back, Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, joined two experts at a Congressional hearing...

FAA closes New Shepard mishap investigation

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Sept. 26 it had closed the mishap investigation into a failed launch by Blue Origin’s New Shepard...

Regulatory uncertainty as commercial human spaceflight takes off

WASHINGTON — As two companies prepare to begin or resume commercial suborbital human spaceflights, they are facing uncertainty about how the safety of the...

Virgin Galactic launches it’s first commercial flight to space

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launched its first commercial space flight Thursday, sending three Italian researchers, two company pilots and an astronaut trainer on a...

What the wreck of the Titan portends for commercial spaceflight

Brendan Curry is a space policy consultant with 25 years of experience in Washington operations for the Planetary Society, Space Foundation and former Florida...

Blue Origin within a “few weeks” of resuming New Shepard flights

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin expects to be ready to resume launches of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in the next few weeks as it...

Virgin Galactic resumes suborbital spaceflights

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Virgin Galactic launched its suborbital spaceplane “Unity” on its first crewed flight in two years Wednesday, carrying two...

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, secures NASA contract for the construction of a lunar lander for astronauts.

Blue Origin, the space exploration company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has secured a contract with NASA to build a lunar lander for...

Blue Origin blames September New Shepard abort on engine nozzle failure

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an unpiloted New Shepard spacecraft...

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