It was never going to be pretty if hundreds of thousands of gallons of highly flammable liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and methane suddenly erupted. But that’s what happened at 9:00 p.m. EDT last night at launch complex 36 on the grounds of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, when a New Glenn rocket, built by the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin aerospace company, ate itself in a massive fireball during a test of its seven first-stage engines. The giant explosion hurled flames, gas, and debris