IT HAS BEEN a very long time coming. Assuming there aren’t any last-minute delays, then within the subsequent few days Blue Origin, a agency run by Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, will make the primary launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. If the whole lot goes easily, then nearly 1 / 4 of a century after it was based, Blue Origin will attain orbit for the primary time—and the personal area business might have one other contender.
