Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, founded Blue Origin 25 years ago. Today, Thursday, January 16, 2025, Blue Origin launched its first rocket, New Glenn, which successfully achieved more than what was expected in the first attempt. With its success, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and the richest man in the world Congratulated Jeff Bezos. What Bue Origin achieve in its first attempt, and why did Elon Musk congratulate Elon Musk? Let’s explore this in detail.
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Elon Musk Congratulated Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos, who founded Blue Origin on 8 Sepetember, 2000, an American space technology company, which is dedicated to build reusable rockets. Enentually after 25 year of the company, Today, on Thursday, 16 January 2025, it took its first attempt with its rocket named New Glenn.
Within its first attempt, Blue Origin’s New Glenn successfully entered the Oribit, which is unexpected achievement. Blue Origin released a post on X handle explaining, “Second stage engine cutoff confirmed. New Glenn’s second stage and payload are now in orbit. Another burn coming up…”
As Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s New Glenn enters the oribit within its first attempt, Founder of Starlink Elon Musk, Blue Origin’s direct rivalry shared a post congratulating, he wrote, “Congratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt!”, and tagged Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origins’s Achievement in its first attempt.
Bezos led Space technology company Blue Origin launched its reusable rocket, New Glenn on early Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 2:03 a.m. from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. New Glenn is named after the first American to oribit earth.
According to The Washington Post, New Glen was supposed to fly before dawn Monday, but ice buildup in critical plumbing caused a delay.
As New Glenn was designed to fulfill reusable purpose, and blue origin tried to land its booster stage on a ship in Atlantic Ocean, but the attempt was not successful.
The Washington Post reported, Three of the booster’s engines relit to slow the vehicle down as it approached a ship at sea several hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean, but the booster was lost. It was not immediately clear what happened, Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin’s vice president of in-space systems, said during the company’s live broadcast of the mission.
Cornell said, “We didn’t have booster landing, but man, we got close. While Bezos had said in a brief interview before the mission regarding landing attempt, “success would be icing on the cake”.
Netizens React to Elon Musk Post.
“Good sportsmanship! Love it! Friendly competition!,” one of them said.
Another user commented, “Blue Origin’s New Glenn just reached orbit on its first try! This is huge for space exploration, showing that reusable rocket tech is advancing. It’s like a new chapter in our space story, pushing us closer to routine space travel. Congrats, @JeffBezos.”
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