US EditionIn Race with SpaceX, Blue Origin Refocuses Efforts on Artemis Moon Lander
Blue Origin halts New Shepard flights after 38 missions and 98 passengers to prioritize lunar lander development and compete for NASA Artemis contracts.
- Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin paused the New Shepard tourism program for at least two years to accelerate development of human lunar capabilities and a sustained lunar presence.
- With the Artemis program reopened, NASA's decision after Starship delays prompted Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp to say `move heaven and Earth` to beat competitors for lunar lander contracts.
- New Shepard has flown 38 times and carried 98 humans above the Kármán line, launching over 200 scientific payloads and flying celebrities like Katy Perry and William Shatner.
- The pause has left would‑be amateur astronauts in a difficult position, and Phil Smith, space industry analyst at BryceTech, says there are `effectively zero` providers until late 2026 while SpaceX Dragons remain prohibitively expensive.
- The company is also pursuing other ambitious projects, introducing TeraWave earlier this month to target military and government buyers against Starlink's 9 million users.
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union-bulletin.comIn race with SpaceX, Blue Origin refocuses efforts on Artemis moon lander
Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism New Shepard flights to focus on competing with SpaceX to be the moon lander for the Artemis III mission.
Blue Origin will suspend its tourist flights to space to focus on the development of monthly landing modules for NASA. The company should not launch New Shepard during,...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company is suspending flights of its New Shepard rocket, which is used for space tourism, for at least two years. The company said it now intends to focus on developing activities related to sending people to the Moon.
Bezos’ Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism To Focus On The Moon
Bezos’ Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism To Focus On The Moon Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Blue Origin decided to shift its focus from the edge of space to the Moon. The company announced on Jan. 30 that it was pausing all of its suborbital commercial flights on its reusable New Shepard rocket for no less than two years in order to focus more resources on delivering a crewed lunar lander to NASA in time to meet Congress’s set dea…
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