CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk -- who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space -- is finally getting her time amongst the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas on June 29, 2025. (Blue Origin) Blue Origin is ...

Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending the short flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back.

Blue Origin is pausing its West Texas flights for at least two years so it can focus on helping NASA return humans to the moon. The company's suborbital rocket began launching people in 2021 and has ...