The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.

The successful launch of Blue Origin’s massive new rocket is a key step that may allow the company to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Gregg Newton/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit.

It is five times taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...

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Jeff Bezos' Space Company Tries Again to Launch Massive New Rocket After Last-Minute Postponement CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early ...

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning.

Blue Origin's successful maiden launch of New Glenn rocket made billionaire Jeff Bezos hungry. He ate breakfast at a Florida ...

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sits on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. (Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press) Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin postponed the ...

The 320-foot (98-meter) New Glenn rocket was supposed to blast ... according to the company. Founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin further delayed the launch because of Tuesday’s poor ...