Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket crashes after liftoff

A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company.

But the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.Blue Origin shows a capsule containing science experiments after a launch failure and parachuting onto the desert floor on Monday.

Sept. 12, 2022. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. No one was aboard, only science experiments. The Blue Origin rocket veered off course over West Texas about 1 1/2 minutes after liftoff Monda.