Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin Nasa spacecraft to Mars

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida (John Raoux/AP)

Blue Origin has launched its huge New Glenn rocket with two Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars.

It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to get people and supplies to the Moon.