The world’s second richest man has now got a rocket in space alongside the world’s richest man, after Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket entered orbit. The spacecraft, called New Glenn, passed the Kármán line—the internationally recognised boundary of space—at around 2 a.

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth. Named after the first American to orbit Earth,

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos' space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch business.