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- Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space company, launched its large rocket for the first time early Thursday.
- The 320 foot tall New Glenn rocket, which had been delayed several times before this launch took place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (Florida) in the early hours of 2:03 am. ET, and achieved orbit.
- Billionaire rival Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 400 total launches, according to its website.
Blue Origin (Amazon, AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos’ space company launched their large rocket for its first launch on Thursday morning.
The 320 foot tall New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida at 2:03 ET in the morning. It reached orbit. However, Blue Origin "lost the booster during descent" toward a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
"The vehicle underpins our efforts to establish sustained human presence on the Moon, harness in-space resources, provide multi-mission, multi-orbit mobility through Blue Ring, and establish destinations in low Earth orbit," Blue Origin said.
According to SpaceX’s website, Elon Musk, the rival, has launched more than 400 rockets.
They are battling to be the dominant players in commercial space racing.
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