Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully achieved orbit this morning, advancing competition with SpaceX and expanding NASA’s commercial launch options.
Blue Origin
The Jeff Bezos-owned company has big plans for the future of human space travel.
The company plans to send its heaviest payload into orbit by Thursday evening.
Bezos’s Blue Moon is expected to take flight by 2024.
Chinese private space companies are two decades behind their American competitors. But the gap is being bridged.