Jeff Bezos already had the money and the motivation to build Orbital Reef. Now he also has a rocket to make it happen.

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad ... which is 50 percent more than NASA’s space shuttle could carry. The road to space hasn’t always run smooth.

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in ... As national rocket programs such as NASA’s Space Shuttle project shuttered, many of the launchpads fell into disrepair.

Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn ... evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla ...

Rodríguez Carrillo/Getty Images) Space transport company Blue Origin successfully flew its New Glenn rocket for the first time early this morning, a major step toward enabling the firm to compete ...

13 (UPI) --Blue Origin scrubbed the launch of its new heavy-lift rocket early Monday ... the first American to orbit Earth -- is set to transport to space a payload of the Blue Ring Pathfinder ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has called off the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Florida at the ... in a 9-day mission on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle flight at the age of 77, making him the ...

The the 321-foot-tall rocket, manufactured at Blue Origin’s massive Rocket Park ... apparatus the company will eventually use to transport customer payloads to desired orbital locations after ...