Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, launched the aerospace company Blue Origin in September 2000.
In December 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued Blue Origin a Part 450 commercial space launch license and cleared the rocket, the New Glenn, for launch. Blue Origin called off the launch of its New Glenn rocket after encountering "a few anomalies" during the mission countdown.
In July 2021, the FAA approved a Blue Origin license to carry humans into space on its New Shepard launch system.
In 2023, the first New Shepard flight since its grounding in 2022 brought 33 payloads and 38,000 postcards on its 10-minute flight to space.
In April 2025, Blue Origin announced the New Shepard NS-31 mission, an all-female spaceflight carrying Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, and Amanda Nguyen.
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Bezos' Blue Origin postpones debut New Glenn launch over last minute issue
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk space race feud back on as Blue Origin asks FAA to limit SpaceX launches
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Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, on Tuesday successfully carried out its first New Shepard flight since September 2022. The mission spanned just over 10 minutes.
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin pushes New Shepard launch citing 'ground system issue'
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Bezos' Blue Origin nabs $3.4B NASA contract to send astronauts to the moon
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract to build a spaceship for its next astronaut mission to the moon.
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Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, suffers first launch failure
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' rocket company, suffered a failure to launch on Monday, the first in the company's history. The rocket took off out of West Texas.
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Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin will launch its sixth crewed flight aboard the New Shepard vessel into outer space on Thursday.
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New Shepard carries crew members above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.