Florida’s sky briefly lit up during the night as one of a handful of big new American-made rockets took flight. It was the first time a new space company achieved orbit on the first launch attempt.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.

Jeff Bezos ' new rocket, taller than the Statue of Liberty, has blasted into space.

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

The successful launch of Blue Origin’s massive new rocket is a key step that may allow the company to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

After years of delays, the billionaire’s Blue Origin space company launched its New Glenn rocket early Thursday.

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning.

The New Glenn makes it safely into orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in Elon Musk's SpaceX fleet.

It is five times taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket that carries paying customers to the edge of space from Texas.

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