Blue Origin, the company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has successfully recovered its New Glenn rocket engine following its launch on Thursday. This is a major achievement for the American company, which aims to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Ariane Cornell, the company's vice president, said during a video broadcast: "Today is a historic day for Blue Origin." After the rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, the company successfully recovered the rocket's first stage, its engine, onto a barge at sea, to the cheers of its employees. Jared Isaacson, a billionaire close to Elon Musk and whom Donald Trump wants to head NASA, quickly congratulated the success of this complex and precise operation and wrote:
