Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Glenn rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just after midnight on Sunday. It's been a long time coming: the company has been developing the 32-foot-tall rocket, which shares extremely similar proportions and stats with SpaceX's Falcon 9 workhorse rocket, for well over a decade. Meanwhile, the Elon Musk-led company has seized the opportunity to cement itself as the space company and NASA contractor to beat. The mission was originally slated for a January 10 launch but the date slipped to Sunday almost immediately. […]