Bad Day at the Office

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket just blew up on the launch pad during a static test firing:

In addition to be a spectacular conflagration,it's a major setback for the program:

An explosion on Florida's Space Coast last night lit up the sky more than 100 miles away.

During a test of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket in the evening hours on May 28, ahead of an upcoming mission to deliver a batch of Amazon Leo internet satellites to low Earth orbit, the launch vehicle experienced an anomaly that led to its complete loss and what is likely significant damage to the Launch Complex-36 (LC-36), at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.