Blue Origin New Shepard launch: LIVE

BLUE Origin, the private rocketmaker run by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has teased its next space adventure with a cryptic Twitter post. The tweet shows a picture of the doomed ship captained by famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, alongside a date: May 9, 2019. That means we ve got just over a week until what will likely be a major announcement from Blue Origin, which has ambitious plans to fire paying tourists into space. It s successfully launched several test rockets already and promises to s