Cape Canaveral (Florida), November 14 (askanews) – After a series of delays and postponements, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Glenn rocket successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida and its booster was also found on a floating platform in the Atlantic so that it could be reused. This is a technical breakthrough for the Amazon founder’s space company which competes with Elon Musk’s Space
The 98 meter long rocket carries the twin spacecraft of the Escapade project (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), which is tasked with studying the Martian magnetic field and the planet’s interaction with the solar wind on behalf of NASA. An important step towards understanding how the Red Planet has lost most of its atmosphere over thousands of years, in the hope of eventually allowing for human exploration. In the future, according to Jeff Bezos, millions of people will live in space.
