Blue Origin, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, is an American aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company. It develops reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles like New Shepard and New Glenn, in-space systems, and lunar landers such as Blue Moon. Blue Origin is also a NASA partner, collaborating on the Artemis program for lunar exploration and working towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon, with partners like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Draper. Key activities include space tourism, satellite deployment capabilities, and advancing technologies to lower space travel costs.
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Blue Origin will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years and shift resources to accelerate development of the company’s human lunar capabilities.
Both Blue Origin and SpaceX submitted acceleration approaches to NASA for potential faster lunar landing options.
Blue Origin has not disclosed the list of people who have secured spots on New Shepard suborbital flights.
Blue Origin's Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander has arrived in Houston.
Employees at Blue Origin learned of the New Shepard shift via an internal company email sent on Friday.
Blue Origin indicated that some employees working on New Shepard will move to Blue Moon and related lunar programs, particularly engineers and technicians.
Some Blue Origin employees who had been on the New Shepard program posted on social media seeking opportunities inside and outside the company after the flight pause.
Laura Stiles is a Blue Origin employee who serves as director of New Shepard launch operations.
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp directed the company to redirect people and resources toward accelerating human lunar capabilities inclusive of New Glenn.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard program completed 38 launches that included a mix of science payloads and 17 crewed flights.
On January 30, 2026 Blue Origin halted New Shepard flights for at least two years to shift resources toward development of the company’s human lunar capabilities.
Blue Origin plans to increase New Glenn flight cadence and to double down on its lunar commitments to NASA.
Blue Origin announced plans for a broadband constellation called TeraWave to serve enterprise customers in the month prior to the article.
Blue Origin's New Glenn-3 (NG-3) mission will include the first in-orbit reuse of a New Glenn first-stage booster.
AST SpaceMobile scheduled the BlueBird 7 launch for late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn is slated to fly for the third time in late February to deploy the BlueBird 7 communications satellite for AST SpaceMobile.
Blue Origin will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years to shift resources to development of the company’s human lunar capabilities.
Blue Origin unveiled an orbital data center initiative in late 2025 focused on radiation-hardened edge compute for government clients.
SpaceX’s million-satellite proposal places the company in direct competition with Blue Origin’s orbital data center initiative.
Blue Origin is prioritizing completion of the New Glenn heavy rocket and a lunar lander.