Here's Jeff Bezos' initial entry into the space race. This suborbital flight in the video below is an unmanned test flight.
Blue Origin is working on a much larger heavy-lift orbital rocket called New Glenn as well. This one is bigger than Falcon Heavy, it's dimensions are similar to NASA's old Saturn 5. New Glenn is scheduled to fly for the first time in 2020. An interesting fact is that New Glenn is entirely self-funded with no money from the US government. Jeff Bezos has invested $2.5 billion of his own money in New Glenn. (He doesn't like being stranded here among all these... Earthlings.)
This one in the video is a little sub-orbital space tourism rocket (with a shape that I'm sure MR will love). It's entirely reusable, the little booster makes a vertical science-fiction-style propulsive landing like the Falcon 9, and I believe that this is the 4th or 5th time this booster has flown. (I expect that they are using it to perfect the propulsive landing technology that they will use in their bigger New Glenn.) These launch from the west Texas desert. The crew capsule separates (it has big picture windows) falls back and lands using parachutes. (I guess that they thought that propulsive landing was too risky to use with people.)
The rocket engine plume is almost transparent compared to the Falcon 9's fiery one, because this vehicle is powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and that burns a lot cleaner. They combine to form water vapor, it's eco-friendly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRs2gMyLLk
Blue Origin is working on a much larger heavy-lift orbital rocket called New Glenn as well. This one is bigger than Falcon Heavy, it's dimensions are similar to NASA's old Saturn 5. New Glenn is scheduled to fly for the first time in 2020. An interesting fact is that New Glenn is entirely self-funded with no money from the US government. Jeff Bezos has invested $2.5 billion of his own money in New Glenn. (He doesn't like being stranded here among all these... Earthlings.)
This one in the video is a little sub-orbital space tourism rocket (with a shape that I'm sure MR will love). It's entirely reusable, the little booster makes a vertical science-fiction-style propulsive landing like the Falcon 9, and I believe that this is the 4th or 5th time this booster has flown. (I expect that they are using it to perfect the propulsive landing technology that they will use in their bigger New Glenn.) These launch from the west Texas desert. The crew capsule separates (it has big picture windows) falls back and lands using parachutes. (I guess that they thought that propulsive landing was too risky to use with people.)
The rocket engine plume is almost transparent compared to the Falcon 9's fiery one, because this vehicle is powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and that burns a lot cleaner. They combine to form water vapor, it's eco-friendly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRs2gMyLLk