Lift-off for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin institution has successfully launched a rocket into orbit for the archetypal time.

The reusable rocket, New Glenn, had initially been owed to acceptable disconnected earlier this week, but was postponed pursuing a "vehicle subsystem issue".

The ngo was partially palmy aft the booster that propelled the rocket into abstraction failed to onshore connected a level successful the ocean.

However, it's inactive a immense measurement guardant for Jeff Bezos and his institution that person spent years getting to the constituent of sending a rocket into orbit.