US EditionBezos' Blue Origin Pauses New Shepard Rocket Program to Focus on Moon Lander Efforts
- On Jan. 30, 2026, Blue Origin announced it will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years to `shift resources to further accelerate development of the company's human lunar capabilities`.
- To develop its Blue Moon lander, Blue Origin is working on Blue Moon Mark 1 for an uncrewed lunar launch later this year and Blue Moon Mark 2 for Artemis V.
- New Shepard has flown 38 times, including 17 crewed missions, carrying 98 people and more than 200 scientific and research payloads on about ten-minute missions.
- The pause removes Blue Origin as a commercial suborbital option for paying customers and surprised Blue Origin employees weeks before the New Glenn mega-rocket third launch slated for late February.
- Having paused before in 2022 after a booster explosion, New Shepard faces questions about its financial viability as SpaceX's Starship delays prompt NASA to consider other Artemis program contractors.
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Blue Origin puts in brackets its space tourism activity. The company founded by Jeff Bezos suspends New Shepard's suborbital flights for at least two years. Objective: to focus its resources on NASA's Moon and Artemis program, in a strategic race against SpaceX.
Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon - The Thinking Conservative News
Blue Origin is pausing New Shepard suborbital flights to focus on delivering a crewed lunar lander to NASA ahead of Congress’s 2030 moon deadline. The post Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
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 deadline to establish a permanent human presence on or around the moon by 2030. “The decision reflects Blue Or…
Blue Origin leaves space tourism to join the new race to the Moon. Multimillionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company announced this Friday that it will pause “for at least two years” the suborbital journeys of its New Shepard rocket, with which millionaires and celebrities were looking into space since the tycoon himself inaugurated those flights as a passenger in July 2021. In a statement, the company stresses that it will allocate the resources of th…
The American Space Company Blue Origin, founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, announced on Friday that it will suspend space tourism flights for at least two years to focus on "the human capacities of the company for the celebrity programme".
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