Bezos’ Blue Origin Launch Flops After He Shrugged Off Trump-Musk Bromance Threat to Space Race

The world’s second richest man suffered an embarrassing botched launch of his new rocket system just hours after shrugging off speculation he might be intimidated by Elon Musk having the incoming president’s ear on all things off-world. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space exploration company was due to fire off its New Glenn Rocket, widely seen as a potential competitor to Musk’s Falcon 9, in the small hours of Monday morning from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, only for the launch to be called off during t