COCOA BEACH, Fla. —As it so often does in the final days before the debut of a new rocket, it all comes down to weather.
Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, is poised for a historic first: its maiden voyage into orbital space with a brand new rocket, New Glenn.
Imagine the raw chemical power that propels rockets beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Now, picture traces of that same compound in ...