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Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching orbit, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch has marked a milestone for a commercial space company that has big ambitions.
To advance that vision, the company is developing its own line of reusable rockets, which could improve access to space.
Blue Origin's motto is gradatim ferociter, Latin for "step by step, ferociously." Bezos has explained that this reflects the company's approach to spaceflight.
"If you're building a flying vehicle, you can't cut any corners. If you do, it's going to be an illusion that it's going to make it faster," Bezos said at the Pathfinder Awards in 2016.
With this step-by-step approach, it took 15 years for Blue Origin to launch its first rocket. New Shepard , which launched in 2015, is named after Alan Shepard , the first American to reach space.
New Shepard is not powerful enough to reach orbit. Instead, it flies a suborbital trajectory. That means it flies to the edge of space, experiencing low gravity for just a few minutes, before returning to its launch site.
What makes New Shepard unique is that it can carry passengers. It did so for the first time on July 20, 2021, when it carried three people, including Bezos, to space. Since then, there have been eight crewed flights of New Shepard and 21 uncrewed flights. Notably, it carried Star Trek's William Shatner to space on Oct. 13, 2021.
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