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Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad during test
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket dramatically exploded on the launch pad during a test in Florida on Thursday, as Jeff Bezos's space venture seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Footage posted online showed the New Glenn igniting on the launch pad before erupting into a massive fireball that billowed skyward, sending a towering plume of flames and smoke into the air.
Blue Origin said it had experienced an "anomaly", a term commonly used by rocket companies to describe a launch failure or explosion.
The explosion could be seen across the nearby region of Cape Canaveral. (NASASpaceflight)
Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in latest setback for Jeff Bezos-owned company
No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’
Nasa’s plans to build a lunar base and return humans to the moon in the next two years, were thrown into jeopardy after a New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company exploded during a test in Florida.
A massive fireball engulfed and destroyed the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center seconds after the start of the scheduled “hotfire” test at 9pm ET, and an orange sky was visible in Fort Pierce, 185km (115 miles) to the south.
Bezos, the Blue Origin founder, tweeted that all his company’s employees were accounted for, safe and uninjured, but lamented a “very rough day”.
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