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Jeff Bezos has announced that he and his brother Mark will be aboard the first passenger-carrying Blue Origin flight on July 20, joining the winner of the continuing auction for the first paid seat, which now stands at US$2.8 million. If all runs to pl… Continue reading Jeff Bezos and his brother to be on first Blue Origin passenger flight
After receiving 5,200 bids from 136 countries, Blue Origin has announced the result of the first round of bidding for the first passenger seat on its New Shepard reusable space vehicle. The highest sealed bid for the first flight, scheduled to fly on J… Continue reading First round of bidding for seat on New Shepard reaches US$1.4 million
Blue Origin has opened the first round of bidding for the first passenger seat on its suborbital New Shepard reusable, Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing (VTVL) space vehicle, which is scheduled to fly on July 20, 2021.Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading Blue Origin opens bidding for seat on its first crewed flight to space
Blue Origin came a step closer to crewed flights today as ground personnel stood in for astronauts during the 15th New Shepard suborbital space mission. Before the NS-15 mission lifted off, the “astronauts” carried out preflight capsule procedures and … Continue reading Blue Origin rehearses for passengers during latest capsule test flight
DARPA’s nuclear space rocket project is progressing, with contracts awarded to General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin for the first phase of the agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The goal is to plac… Continue reading DARPA awards contracts for orbital nuclear propulsion demonstrator
For NASA and anyone else developing technologies for use on the Moon, opportunities to test them out beforehand in lunar-like conditions are rather limited. A newly announced upgrade to Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket system will serve as a new type o… Continue reading Blue Origin’s spinning New Shepard capsule to simulate lunar gravity
The January 16th “Green Run” test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) was intended to be the final milestone before the super heavy-lift booster would be moved to Cape Canaveral ahead of its inaugural Artemis I mission in November 2021. …read more
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket has successfully completed its 14th flight. On January 14, 2021, at 11:20 am CST (17:20 GMT), mission NS-14 lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas on a suborbital trajectory, with an improved crew capsule contain… Continue reading Blue Origin’s New Shepard completes 14th flight, with improved capsule
Private space company Blue Origin had a doubly successful outing with its New Shepard rocket today, reusing the same booster for a record seventh time and doing so with a particularly important payload onboard. The return trip to space was used to test… Continue reading Blue Origin launch sets record, tests NASA lunar landing gear on return
A full-sized mock-up of the lander that may one day put the next US astronauts on the Moon was unveiled today in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Built by the Human Landing System (HLS) National Team consisting … Continue reading Full-scale engineering mock-up of next-gen American lunar lander unveiled