Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez and Mark Zuckerberg

The Amazon founder’s space company marked a major milestone Thursday with the first test flight of its New Glenn rocket.
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.
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The mission, the culmination of a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar development journey, will include an attempt to land New ...