3 companies win major Air Force rocket contracts

SpaceX snubbed as United Launch Alliance, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, and Northrup Grumman win major Air Force contracts

• Oct 12, 2018

Bezos' Blue Origin wins key rocket engine contract

A rocket engine developed by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will power United Launch Alliance rocket

• Sep 27, 2018

Blue Origin test flight

Jeff Bezos' space flight company conducted a successful test of emergency procedures as it prepares for future manned missions and space tourists. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joined CBSN for the launch.

• Jul 18, 2018

Blue Origin test flight simulates space emergency

Private space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos tests systems to prepare to carry future space tourists

• Jul 18, 2018

Blue Origin launches test of New Shepard rocket

Jeff Bezos' space flight company Blue Origin tested its New Shepard rocket for the eighth time Sunday. SpaceX and Blue Origin appear to be in an undeclared race to launch humans into space aboard one of their capsules.

• Apr 29, 2018

Bezos launches New Shepard in successful test

Bezos' Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard spacecraft on Sunday

• Apr 29, 2018

Space Council works to speed up launch approvals

The National Space Council is working to boost private sector space activity by streamlining regulations

• Feb 21, 2018

Test flight puts Jeff Bezos company closer to offering space tourism

Successful launch and return to Earth of re-usable Blue Origin rocket and passenger capsule with huge, panoramic windows was done in secret

• Dec 13, 2017

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans Alabama rocket engine plant

The private spaceflight company will invest $200 million in a Huntsville facility, which would employ as many as 350 people

• Jun 27, 2017

Space competition heats up between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

The space industry is watching a heated competition – not between two countries, but between two billionaires

• Mar 7, 2017

Blue Origin stages spectacular spacecraft abort test

Launch commentator: “There it is! There you go, New Shepard, look at her! What a test!”

• Oct 5, 2016

Jeff Bezos unveils details of new Blue Origin rocket

Amazon founder says the "New Glenn" rocket his space company Blue Origin is developing will be ready for test flights by the end of the decade

• Sep 12, 2016

Cause of rocket launch glitch identified

United Launch Alliance says it knows what caused an early engine shutdown in March and hopes to resume Atlas flights in June

• Apr 29, 2016

Blue Origin launches reusable rocket on third flight

Blue Origin launched its New Shepard reusable rocket and crew capsule Saturday for the third time in a little more than four months

• Apr 2, 2016

Bezos company plans human space flights by 2017

Amazon.com founder says private space travel enterprise Blue Origin will turn a profit by selling rocket engines

• Mar 9, 2016

Virgin Galactic gets back in the space race

Over a year after a deadly test flight, new spaceship could bring the company one step closer to sending ordinary citizens to space

• Feb 20, 2016

Experts applaud SpaceX rocket landing

Space experts take wait-and-see attitude on feasibility of flying used rockets

• Dec 22, 2015

Jeff Bezos wants to blast Trump into space

The tech mogul is striking a nerve with his offer to reserve the GOP candidate a seat on his rocket ship

• Dec 8, 2015

Blue Origin successfully launches - and lands - rocket

The New Shepard spacecraft successfully completed a sub-orbital test fight in a major "space tourism" milestone

• Nov 24, 2015

Jeff Bezos celebrates first landing of fully reusable rocket

Amazon CEO calls successful landing of suborbital rocket a "game changer" for space travel

• Nov 24, 2015

Bezos to boost humans into space from Cape Canaveral

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' private space company, Blue Origin, will build and launch reusable rockets on Florida's Space Coast

• Sep 15, 2015

Web billionaires face off in renewed Texas space race

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin share a state and a goal, but the similarities end there

• Apr 27, 2015

Blue Origin preps for sub-orbital test flights

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' secretive space company plans to test a new rocket engine for future space tourism trips

• Apr 7, 2015