“The first stage of the New Glenn rocket, named ‘Never Tell Me the Odds,’ successfully landed on the Landing Platform Vessel Jacklyn positioned 375 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.”
Blue Origin became the second company after SpaceX to successfully land an orbital-class rocket booster while delivering a payload to space. The New Glenn first stage touched down on a drone ship nine minutes after launch, following a failed landing attempt on the rocket’s January debut flight. Blue Origin spent ten months tweaking the vehicle after that first stage was lost at Mach 5.5. The successful mission carried NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes.