Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New Glenn could lift off as early as next week.

Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first time — and finally enter the

Blue Origin Jeff Bezos aerospace company has received its first commercial space launch license for the New Glenn rocket from the FAA

New Glenn, a massive heavy-payload Blue Origin rocket, had its launch window moved back at least a couple of days.

A rocket is expected to be launched at a launchpad in Florida that has been inactive for almost two decades. A new rocket about 98 meters long, developed by Blue Origin, is being prepared for the first flight,