Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida.
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00:03Blue Origin launched a massive new rocket on its first test flight on Thursday.
00:09The space technology company founded by Jeff Bezos is sending up a prototype satellite
00:13to orbit Earth.
00:16The rocket carried an experimental platform designed to host satellites or release them
00:20into their proper orbits.
00:23While this mission was expected to last six hours, the rocket is built to haul spacecraft
00:28and eventually astronauts to orbit and also the moon.