98 meters high, the size of a 30-story building, New Glenn successfully took off around 2:03 a.m. (8:03 a.m. BST) from the Cape Canaveral space base in Florida.
Elon Musk congratulates Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos for ‘reaching orbit on the first attempt’
SpaceX boss Elon Musk on Thursday congratulated his rival Jeff Bezos, founder of the company Blue Origin, for the success of the first flight of his large New Glenn rocket, which managed to reach orbit.
“Congratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt!” Elon Musk posted on his X platform to Mr. Bezos. The two Silicon Valley figures each founded their space companies in the early 2000s and compete in this field.
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