Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Launches Huge Glenn Rocket Carrying Twin NASA Spacecraft To Mars

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Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin on Friday launched the giant New Glenn rocket from Florida. This is the rocket’s debut mission, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars and nailing the return landing of its reusable booster for the first time.

With Thursday’s launch, NASA’s twin EscaPADE spacecraft became the first science payload that Blue Origin has delivered to space for NASA or any customer.

The powerful two-stage rocket’s first flight since its inaugural launch in January and the successful booster landing at sea represented key milestones for Blue Origin in its quest to compete on a more equal footing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the world’s leading rocket-launch service.

A live Blue Origin webcast showed the rocket ascending from its launch tower through