After years of delays, the billionaire’s Blue Origin space company launched its New Glenn rocket early Thursday.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has faced criticism since he killed a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris in the election against Donald Trump.

Blue Origin's New Glenn finally roared into orbit in the early hours of Thursday, with SpaceX's Starship rocket set to launch hours later.

In a letter, more than 400 employees asked Mr. Bezos, the company’s owner, to meet, saying they were “deeply alarmed” by recent decisions at the paper.

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A recent exodus of talent from The Washington Post has prompted more than 400 of its staffers to send an unusual letter to the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, expressing alarm over the newspaper’s direction and asking him to intervene.

Sure, it was risky, but Bezos made the stakes crystal clear. According to Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Bezos told his parents something similar: "There's a 70% chance you'll lose it all. I just want to make sure I can still come home for Thanksgiving if this doesn't work."

Watch as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempted to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, 13 January. It was to be the long-delayed debut launch of Mr Bezos's challenge to SpaceX's dominance in the satellite launch market.

Veteran Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin said Monday she is leaving to join a startup — and blasted the Beltway broadsheet’s billionaire owner on her way out the door.

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.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully completed its maiden test flight, launching a prototype satellite into space. Elon Musk congratulated Jeff

High-profile tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will sit front and center at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.