Anti-Climactic
Blue Origin scrubbed the launch of its enormous flagship rocket right before it was scheduled to lift off on Monday morning from Cape Canaveral — marking yet another delay in the vehicle’s development.
The Jeff Bezos-owned company intended to send its New Glenn rocket into space within a three-hour window before dawn. But with the 320-foot behemoth sitting primed on the launchpad, Blue Origin halted its launch several times before calling it off completely around 3:05 am, Space.com reports.
Afterwards, engineers immediately began draining all fuel from the rocket, per The Associated Press…