The Blue Origin's 11-minute space flight happened on April 14 with an all-female flight crew. There have been reports that the space trip was not good for the environment as well as dispelling the ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced the trip earlier this year. Six women are scheduled Monday to take the first all-female flight into space since 1963.

Blue Origin describes New Glenn as “our giant, reusable rocket built for bigger things.” The “giant” bit is apt: The rocket stands over 320 ft (98 m) high.

Blue Origin’s new rocket, which was raised for the first time on a Kennedy Space Center launchpad in February, stands at about 320 feet (98 meters) tall.

“So far, Chicxulub, among the 500-million-year-old impactors, seems to be a unique and rare case of a carbonaceous-type asteroid hitting Earth,” Dr. Fischer-Gödde said.

Blue Origin is steadfast in its desire to dramatically lower the price of launching material from Earth, Limp said. And doing so means innovation by commercial companies, he added.