Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Blue Origin's attempted launch of its New Glenn rocket. All eyes are on Cape Canaveral in Florida, where a three hour window for launch begins at 01:00 local time (06:00 GMT).

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.