Jeff Bezos is back in the (astro) picture= hooray! [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24eg7z7zgo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24eg7z7zgo)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 02:02 local time (07:02 GMT).
It firmly pits the world’s two richest men against each other in a commercial space race, vying to fly bigger and more powerful rockets.
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