The company’s model rockets range in size from six inches to two feet tall. Some are replicas of iconic vehicles like the space shuttle and Apollo 11’s Saturn V. Estes manufactures the ...

On Jan. 13, 1975, inside the cavernous VAB, workers stacked the Saturn IB rocket's first stage onto Mobile Launcher-1 (ML-1), modified from its use to launch Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program ...

Blue Origin launched its towering New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, in a crucial milestone for Jeff Bezos' space company. New Glenn thundered off the launchpad in the early morning ...

Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida for the first time early Thursday morning. The uncrewed rocket took off at about 2 a.m. ET and reached orbit. New Glenn, which is as tall as ...

Blue Origin’s webcast last showed the booster at an altitude of about 84,000 feet. New Glenn is the size of a 30-story skyscraper at 322 feet tall, nearly as tall as the Saturn V rockets that carried ...

Industry news site Spaceflight Now points out that this made Blue Origin the first company “to successfully reach orbit on their first launch with a new orbital-class rocket in the new era of ...