Jeff Bezos' space ambitions just went up in smoke on the launchpad. In a dramatic night-time disaster at Cape Canaveral, Blue Origin's flagship 98-meter-tall New Glenn rocket suffered a catastrophic explosion during a routine static-fire engine test. The massive blast unleashed a giant orange fireball that shook homes across Cocoa Beach. This failure comes just days before a major satellite launch and weeks after Blue Origin secured a multi-million-dollar lunar contract from NASA. Bezos has vowed to rebuild, but the road to competing with SpaceX just hit a brick wall. Watch the jaw-dropping footage.