“This is our first flight and we’ve prepared rigorously for it,” Jarrett Jones, senior vice president of New Glenn, said in a ...

USCRPL students last made history in 2019, when the club became the first student group to fire a rocket above the Kármán line: the internationally recognized legal boundary dividing Earth's ...

It's even considered closer to space than to any Earth land mass. The Kármán line, known as the boundary of space, is 62 miles above Earth. Astronauts aboard the ISS in equatorial low-Earth ...

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the ...

Doing that on a maiden flight would be unprecedented: that kind of partial reusability was pioneered by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s ...

But they would cross the so-called Kármán line, a boundary generally accepted to be 100 km (62 miles) up, which earns a person astronaut wings. “I want to become the first disabled person in ...