CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Blue Origin delayed what would have been the inaugural launch of its giant New Glenn rocket early Monday because of unspecified equipment problems.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos founded the company 25 years ago. He took part in Monday’s countdown from Mission Control, located at the rocket factory just outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center about 50 miles east of Orlando, Fla. No matter what happens, Bezos said Sunday evening, “we’re going to pick ourselves up and keep going.”