Blue Origin Launches Huge Rocket Carrying Twin NASA Spacecraft to Mars

Blue Origin Launches Huge Rocket Carrying Twin NASA Spacecraft to Mars

Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.

Blue Origin launches rocket carrying NASA Mars spacecraft

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket, carrying two NASA Mars orbiters into space, while the booster successfully landed back on an offshore barge.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blasts off with Mars satellites in tow

Blue Origin successfully launched its massive New Glenn rocket on Thursday following days of delays, with the spacecraft carrying NASA's twin satellites bound for Mars.

Blue Origin sends NASA spacecraft to Mars and lands booster for first time - heating up race with Elon Musk's SpaceX

Staff cheered as the booster landed upright on its platform 375 miles (600km) offshore in the Atlantic Ocean - something Blue Origin has never managed before with a rocket so large.

Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket along with 2 Mars-bound satellites

The giant New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars while also nailing the landing of its reusable booster for the first time.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches rocket carrying twin Nasa spacecraft to Mars

A huge New Glenn rocket successfully took off to place two spacecraft in orbit for a later boost to the red planetBlue Origin successfully launched its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon.The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from the Cape C…