An image grabs obtained on May 29, 2026, from UGC video content on the X page of @JConcilus and shared on social media show Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploding during a test flight on May 28, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket unleashed a massive fireball into the sky as it exploded during a test on Thursday, in the latest blow to billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space ambitions.
Footage shows the towering rocket erupt in an inferno, followed by a mushroom cloud of smoke as bystanders gathered to watch the launch gasp “Oh no!” and “Oh my God!”
Bezos’s space company Blue Origin said in a brief statement posted to X that it had experienced an “anomaly” during the test in Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida, and that “all personnel have been accounted for.”
The explosion is the latest setback to the Amazon boss’s position in the frenzied race between private companies pushing for space exploration.
