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Blue Origin successfully launched — and partially landed — the company’s New Glenn rocket Thursday, marking a major step forward in its bid to rival SpaceX as a reliable provider of reusable rockets for NASA and other government agencies.
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Blue Origin intensifies SpaceX competition with successful booster landing
Blue Origin has successfully landed the booster of its New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
The rocket company founded a quarter-century ago by billionaire Jeff Bezos made history Thursday with the pinpoint landing of an 18-story-tall rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The on-target touchdown came nine minutes after the New Glenn rocket,
Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on its first-ever interplanetary mission on Thursday, sending twin NASA spacecraft on their way to Mars. Minutes after deployment, the spaceflight company created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully landed the New Glenn’s first-stage booster on only its second try.
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.