Add rockets to any room:FLORIDA TODAY's 2025 Space Launch Calendar is here For this first launch, Blue Ring will travel on the second stage for the duration of the planned six-hour flight. Similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9, New Glenn's first stage booster will come back to land on a vessel at sea, known as Jacklyn. Blue Origin believes they have a good chance on their first attempt at landing New Glenn. They have even named the first stage booster So You're Telling Me There's A Chance. Blue Origin's rockets Founded by former Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, the company also operates a suborbital vehicle known as New Shepard out of Van Horn, Texas. That single stage rocket mimics the flight of Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space. The vehicle lifts the spacecraft with experiments or paying spacefarers to space for minutes. Where it differs from Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket is that the New Shepard rocket can land and be reused. Now Blue Origin hopes to accomplish the same with its multi-stage orbital New Glenn rocket. Named for John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, the New Glenn will be the company's workhorse rocket. Assuming all goes well with the inaugural test flight, plans call for it to launch satellites, such Amazon's Kuiper as well as NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars no earlier than Spring of 2025. Amazon's $10 billion Project Kuiper is a broadband network that will rely on a constellation of 3,232 satellites. It's akin to SpaceX's Starlink. Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at bedwards@floridatoday.com or on X: @brookeofstars.