Blue Origin expects the New Glenn to provide a viable alternative to SpaceX's market-dominating Falcon family of rockets.

Jeff Bezos, the second-richest man alive, turned 61 years old on Sunday. Since his youth in New Mexico, Bezos has gone through college, founded several companies — you may have heard of a few of them — and knocked milestone after milestone in the dust. Here’s a (brief) account of some major events in the life of the 236-billion-dollar man.

After more than a decade of development, hype and pent-up demand, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace venture Blue Origin will at long last attempt to put a rocket into orbit. New Glenn, originally intended to