Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos's Space Company Has Blasted Its First Rocket Into Orbit In A Bid To Challenge The Dominance Of Elon Musk's Spacex.

Isaacman, 38, the trip's benefactor, has forked over an undisclosed but presumably hefty sum to fellow billionaire and spacex owner elon musk to send himself and. (updated from originally announced target of 3:22 p.m.) from cape canaveral space force station’s space launch complex 40. The falcon 9 rocket took off from nasa's kennedy space center.

After More Than Two Years Of Training For The Landmark Mission, Four Citizens Including Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman Were Launched Into Orbit Aboard A Spacex.

Spacex ceo elon musk was at kennedy space center to see the crew off, and in true muskian style the crew also travelled to the launch tower in two model xs (wearing. A spacex falcon 9 looks to lift off at 5:05 p.m. Today's launch was the 10th falcon 9 mission of 2025.

The New Glenn Rocket Launched.

Four private citizens are set to launch into orbit wednesday in what will be the first mission to space without any professional astronauts on board. Carrying science and tech on firefly aerospace’s first clps or commercial lunar payload services flight for nasa, blue ghost mission 1 launched at 1:11 a.m. Musk has long talked about his desire to make a new town — which he hopes to call starbase — in coastal south texas, where his rocket launch company, spacex, is based.