Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s commercial space company Blue Origin is set to host the inaugural launch of its massive New Glenn Rocket on Jan. 12 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It will be the rocket’s first launch into orbit, posing one of the largest challenges to fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has long dominated the U.S. commercial space industry.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands 30 stories high, and the company has made its development a central goal since Bezos launched the aerospace manufacturer in 2000. As a multi-billion dollar project, New Glenn challenges the market hold of SpaceX, the key industry leader in launching both satellites and humans into space with its Falcon 9 and other spacecraft….