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If things had gone to plan in the wee hours of the morning today, Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin team would be celebrating the successful liftoff of the company's towering New Glenn rocket. Instead, celebrations will have to wait for another day after pesky issues ultimately kept the 30-story rocket grounded at the... Read more...
Blue Origins New Glenn, named after the first American astronaut to orbit the Moon, John Glenn, is upright on a launch pad for the first time. The advanced heavy-lift vehicle will support both customer missions and Blue Origin programs, including returning to the Moon as part of NASAs historic Artemis... Read more...
Blue Origins New Shepard spacecraft has received a new launch date and time, and you can watch live. New Shepard is the space companys reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the recognized boundary of space. Mission NS-24 was initially scheduled to launch yesterday... Read more...
Blue Origin recently shared Blue Alchemist, which it believes can safely provide unlimited solar power wherever it is needed on the moon. The concept utilizes a process known as molten regolith electrolysis and has a very useful byproduct. The space company says it has been making solar cells and transmission wire... Read more...
Blue Origin experienced a booster failure during a launch of its New Shepard capsule yesterday and became engulfed in flames. The rocket failure occurred about one minute post launch and prompted the space company to perform an emergency abort midflight. Jeff Bezos' company launched mission NS-23 at approximately... Read more...
Blue Origin announced that it is delaying its NS-19 mission due to forecasted winds on Thursday and Friday of this week, but has already rescheduled it for Saturday (barring more bad weather). The flight is set to carry two notable crew members into low Earth orbit, former NFL great Michael Strahan and Alan Shepard's... Read more...
Have you ever wished you could have a business address located in space? Well Blue Origin and Sierra Space are about to make that a possibility with the Orbital Reef space station. Michael Scott would surely be watching with enthusiasm, with Dwight and Jim competing to be the first paper supplier in space! Blue... Read more...
In the modern era, there is a bit of a commercial space race occurring, vying for NASAs approval and monetary support. Among the competitors, Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, leading a team of companies, has taken a step forward by delivering an engineering sample of their lunar lander to NASAs Johnson Space Center. The Blue... Read more...