Watch Blue Origin's latest rocket launch to space and back. | Insider Science

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin has successfully landed its New Glenn rocket booster on a barge in the Atlantic, becoming the second company after SpaceX to reach this milestone, marking a moment more than two decades in the making. | TRT Afrika

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida. The rocket was carrying two Nasa spacecraft deployed towards Mars. The Escapade satellites will take 22 months to reach Mars and will orbit the planet to measure its atmosphere and magnetic field. The reusable booster powering New Glenn also separated from the rocket's upper stage and touched down on a floating landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean, in a successful first for Blue Origin.