Blue Origin Pauses New Shepard Missions to Focus on Lunar Landings Under NASA's Artemis Program

Blue Origin pauses new Shepard Missions to focus on lunar landings under NASA's Artemis Program

Blue Origin has reportedly hit the pause on its New Shepard flights (commercial flights), and honestly, it is a massive shift for the company. The company (owned by Jeff Bezos, owner and founder of Amazon) says that this break frees up people and resources so they can push harder on building their human lunar systems. NASA to get astronauts back on the Moon Currently, they are teamed up with NASA to get astronauts back on the Moon by using their…

Blue Origin Halts New Shepard Space Tourism for at Least Two Years

Blue Origin has announced a temporary halt to flights of its New Shepard spacecraft, pausing its suborbital space tourism business for at least two years. The company says the decision will free resources to accelerate development of its Blue Moon lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis programme, including robotic tests and a planned crewed Moon landing later this decade as part of a broader shift toward deep-space exploration and infrastructure develo…

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