Updated Jan. 12, 2025, 11:19 p.m. ET Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang is reporting on the launch from Cocoa Beach, Fla. There’s a new rocket that’s never flown waiting on a launchpad in Florida. It’s called New Glenn. On Monday, the vehicle’s seven powerful engines are set to ignite, lifting it to orbit for the first time. There’s a lot on …
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The foundational building block for Jeff Bezos’ space dreams is finally ready to launch. A New Glenn rocket — built by Blue Origin, the rocket company that Mr. Bezos started nearly a quarter century ago — is sitting on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It is as tall as a 32-story building, and its voluminous …
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NASA needs help fetching rocks from Mars, and on Tuesday, agency officials announced that they have not yet quite decided how to do that. Instead, they are leaving a final decision to the incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. But the officials said they had figured out how to potentially launch the mission and bring those red planet rocks …
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