Fifty years ago, then President Gerald Ford made a 24-mile span of the Cape's beach ... including Canaveral National Seashore, would be condos by now, if not for the Space Race.

Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos has successfully fired a rocket into orbit as he took a giant leap in his space race with Elon ... blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 2.02am local time.

On 2:03 a.m. Thursday morning, the new space race began in earnest ... rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning.

The towering 30-story rocket, designed with a reusable first stage, took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ... of commercial spaceflight. As the space race heats up, Blue Origin's success ...

The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral ... in Florida at 02:02 local time (07:02 GMT). It firmly pits the world's two richest men against each other in a commercial space race, vying ...

The billionaire space race entered a new phase today when Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. At 2:03AM ET this ...

A new space race is underway ... which was used to rebuild Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. While New Glenn was launched in Florida, the company does work in Texas, where ...

Related: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches new rocket in first test flight Blue Origin launched New Glenn into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida early Thursday. Like rival ...