The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

New Glenn’s maiden voyage ramps up an ongoing space race between Blue Origin and SpaceX, which were respectively founded the world’s two richest people. Bezos currently has an estimated net worth of $237 billion, while Musk’s fortune stands at $428.5 billion.

Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has successfully launched the New Glenn, a heavy-lift rocket that could potentially compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets, Azernews reports.

Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning. It made the company the first to successfully reach orbit on its first launch of an orbital-class rocket.

How the Sunshine State, once America’s dead end, became its new seat of power.

This week's newsletter looks inside the CBC archives to see how food was processed in the '60s, recalling dot-com dreams and facing the high cost of living on a piece of France in the Atlantic Ocean.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad.

Manalapan, a renowned enclave in Florida's Palm Beach County, has consistently seen skyrocketing real estate prices, attracting high-profile residents like Larry Ellison and Sean Hannity. According to The Wall Street Journal, a local developer is setting a new benchmark, listing a spec-built mansion for $285 million.

In a book written by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley titled Who Owns Outer Space, the authors (Canada Research Chairs at the University of British Columbia) brilliantly put forth the challenges that underlie humanity’s expansionist cravings to explore outer space.

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the advent of air travel and modern space exploration.

CBC East Coast Music hour is hosting six Atlantic musicians for a songwriting camp in Fredericton. The songs they create will premiere in their upcoming performance at the Playhouse.

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.