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Blue Origin has successfully landed the booster of its New Glenn rocket for the first time on Thursday, November 13, 2025.  The feat, achieved on the company’s second attempt after failing in January, moves Jeff Bezos’ space venture a step further toward challenging Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose feats and progress have long overshadowed it. A boost to rival SpaceX The New Glenn rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and carried on it NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars. Three minutes into flight, the booster named “Never Tell Me the Odds” separated, descended through the atmosphere, and executed a controlled landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.  The achievement places Blue Origin among the small group of companies that have ever landed an orbital-class rocket booster, a milestone SpaceX first reached in 2015. Until now, no other organization had replicated the feat with a heavy-lift booster. The result is also a major boost for Blue Origin’s strategy of building a reusable launch system that can compete on cost, cadence, and payload capacity. It also signals that the company, founded by Bezos in 2000, may finally be on the path of catching up with SpaceX after years of delays that allowed the latter to seize near-total control of the US launch market. Breakthrough moment after years of delays The successful booster recovery tells a different tale from when it first launched in January and shows that Blue Origin has worked on the possible challenges it faced during that mission. The booster for that mission crashed into the Atlantic due to engine failure, which affected its ability to reignite during descent.  New Glenn’s first-stage booster is unusually large for a reusable rocket, nearly 190 ft tall and 23 ft wide. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster, by comparison, stands about 135…

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