Before the success of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, only Elon Musk's SpaceX had accomplished such a maneuver with an orbital-class rocket. Thursday's successful launch comes amid intensified rivalry between the two billionaire-owned private space companies as the US space agency NASA recently opened up bids for its planned Moon mission.

El cohete New Glenn de Blue Origin envía con éxito hacia el planeta rojo dos sondas de la NASA y demuestra su capacidad para hacer la competencia a SpaceX con una lanzadera…

Blue Origin's New Glenn booster rocket successfully launched its second-ever trip into space on Thursday to deploy two NASA satellites bound for Mars.