Blue Origin successfully landed a 29-story reusable rocket booster for the first time on April 19, marking a new wave of possibilities for the Jeff Bezos-led company to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The New Glenn rocket booster, nicknamed “Never Tell Me The Odds,” took off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just before 7:30 a.m. ET and landed on a sea-based platform hundreds of miles downrange nearly 10 minutes later.
Bezos posted a video showing the successful landing on the platform, called “Jacklyn,” located east of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean.
“During the final descent onto Jacklyn, the three middle BE-4 engines on the booster will reignite to slow down the vehicle,” Blue Origin explained on X….