Blue Origin achieved a major milestone as its colossal New Glenn rocket’s first-stage booster successfully autonomously landed on the droneship “Jacklyn” in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly nine minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. This marks Blue Origin’s second successful booster recovery, putting it alongside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in the reusable rocket race. Standing at 321 feet tall, the booster, often called “building-sized”, demonstrates Blue Origin’s growing capabilities in reusable rocket

212K views · 1.5K reactions | Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth. Years in the making with heavy funding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the 320-foot rocket carried an an experimental platform designed to host satellites or release them into their proper orbits. Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/zejN3F | ABC News | Facebook