A decade in the making, Jeff Bezos' powerful orbital rocket, New Glenn, is poised to make its

maiden flight. Standing 32 stories tall and packing more than twice the thrust of SpaceX's Falcon 9,

Blue Origin's heavy lift rocket will launch uncrewed from Florida Space Coast as soon as Monday morning.

The mission is ambitious. New Glen will fly another company creation, a Blue Ring space

tug pathfinder to orbit. And since it's designed to be partially reusable, Blue Origin will

also attempt to land its first stage booster on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

On the eve of the launch from the rocket factory just outside of Kennedy Space Center,

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp laid out the high stakes.

We're trying to build a road to space, and to do that, we have to lower the cost, as I mentioned, to space.

And there have been literally thousands of people inside of blue

working on this for the past seven, eight years. And it's a big moment for us, you know,

to be able to see the first launch here. And, you know, we're hoping to get to orbit. We would

consider that a success. And everything on paper and our simulations and our tests say that we're

going to be able to do that.

But we're also audaciously trying to land the vehicle onto the barge.

That would be icing on the cake if we were able to make that happen.

New Glen is key to unlocking Bezos vision of millions of humans living and working in space

with heavy industry transferred off of Earth.

Blue Origin is also developing commercial space stations and lunar landers, but the rocket will

unlock the access to space.

Other customers, ranging from NASA and the Space Force to sister company Amazon, are

also signed up for launches.

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