The take a look at flight had already been delayed by tough seas that posed a threat to the corporate’s plan to land the first-stage booster on a floating platform within the Atlantic.
New Glenn is known as after the primary American to orbit Earth, John Glenn.
It’s 5 occasions taller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket that carries paying clients to the sting of area from Texas.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos based the corporate 25 years in the past. He took half in Monday’s countdown from Mission Management, positioned on the rocket manufacturing facility simply exterior the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Orlando, Florida.
It doesn’t matter what occurs, Bezos mentioned Sunday night, “we will decide ourselves up and hold going.”
Bezos created Blue Origin in 2000, a transfer that he mentioned prompted his highschool girlfriend to look at, “Jeff began Amazon simply to get sufficient cash to do Blue Origin — and I can’t show her unsuitable.”
He has mentioned he funds the rocket firm by promoting $1 billion in Amazon inventory a yr.
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