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 ...
Gregg Newton/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit.
Now, nearly a quarter-century later — and years after competitor SpaceX grew to dominate the world's commercial space industry — Bezos' company is finally on the brink of launching a rocket ...