Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on test flight

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’s space company.

Thirty storeys tall, standing at 98 metres (321.5 feet), with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched at about 2am (07:00 GMT) from Blue Origin’s launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in its…