Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, and also nailed the landing of its rocket booster. The booster, named Never Tell Me the Odds (Han Solo fans will recognize that quote), landed gently on a floating platform named Jacklyn, after Bezos' late mother. This was the first time Blue Origin successfully landed the New Glenn rocket booster.

Just before 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, New Glenn launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It deployed NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers twin spacecraft, dubbed Escapade , into the designated loiter orbit, and then landed the reusable first stage on Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean. Watch this: Blue Origin Lands Its New Glenn Rocket Booster for the First Time 10:

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