Blue Origin on Sunday said its New Glenn rocket booster touched down after its launch, marking its first landing of a reused booster.
The rocket, which had a launch window of 6:45 a.m. to 12:19 p.m. ET on Sunday, lifted off at around 7:25 a.m. ET (1125 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the booster touchdown happened about 10 minutes later.
The mission was key to demonstrating that New Glenn, a 29-story heavy-lift rocket, has a reliable booster reuse capability and can compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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zipfile1782@piefed.social · 8 pts · 122d
Oh, look another rich asshole playing with his toys while poor countries literally have no fuel. The high point of capitalism and mankind.