Blue Origin's New Glenn finally roared into orbit in the early hours of Thursday, with SpaceX's Starship rocket set to launch hours later.
The New Glenn rocket was due to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida for the first time in the early hours of Monday morning but the launch was cancelled after several delays
The world’s second richest man suffered an embarrassing botched launch of his new rocket system just hours after shrugging off speculation he might be intimidated by Elon Musk having the incoming president’s ear on all things off-world.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral - so where do things stand in the battle of the billionaires for space exploration?
Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company, launched its large rocket for the first time early Thursday.
Elon Musk took to X to share GIFs from the movie "Step Brothers," comparing himself and fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos to the film's two main characters after Bezos's space company, Blue Origin, successfully launched its first rocket into orbit.
Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon
The scheduled Sunday launch could mark a new phase in competition in the commercial space market, and pave the way for the deployment of Amazon's Kuiper satellite network.
Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.
While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of space launches.
Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starship test flight ended in failure as the spacecraft exploded and broke apart, following a suspected fuel leak in the engine firewall.