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 conducted four New Shepard missions in 2021 using two different vehicles, one designed for payload-only flights and one for flying people.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS certified the 2021-07-20 Blue Origin flight with titles for the oldest person in space, the youngest person in space, the first siblings to go to space together, and the first suborbital spacecraft to carry paying customers.
Blue Origin announced on 2021-09-27 that Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries would be passengers on the 2021-10-12 New Shepard flight.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard RSS First Step was the first suborbital spacecraft to carry paying customers on 2021-07-20.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard mission NS-18 is scheduled to lift off on Tuesday, 2021-10-12 from Launch Site One in West Texas.
The 2021-10-12 New Shepard flight will launch from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.
SSC’s Launch Enterprise awarded a FY21 prototype project for Cryogenic Fluid Management for Glenn Stage 2 to Blue Origin for $24,350,000.
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command selected Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance to participate in technology development projects on 2021-09-24.
Blue Origin will receive $24,300,000 for cryogenic fluid management for the New Glenn rocket’s second stage.
Courtney Schmitt is a Controls Engineer II at Blue Origin.
The additional HLS funding Blue Origin seeks was not included in the House’s standard annual appropriations bill or in the House version of the $3,500,000,000,000 budget reconciliation package.
Blue Origin received an Appendix N award of $25,600,000 as part of the Blue Origin-led National Team.
Orolia's timing solutions support ESA, NASA, Jet Propulsion Labs, SpaceX, Blue Origin, CNES France, NPL UK, DLR Germany, and JAXA.
Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed New Shepard flight on 2021-07-20 used a different booster and capsule than the 2021-08-25 mission.
Blue Origin achieved the 18th consecutive successful crew capsule landing in the New Shepard program, counting every flight including a pad escape test in 2012.
Blue Origin completed the 17th New Shepard mission to space and back on 2021-08-26.
Blue Origin completed the 17th New Shepard mission to space and back for the program with the NS-17 flight.
Blue Origin has a backlog of nearly $100,000,000 and has not disclosed the number of customers who have signed up for flights.
New Shepard lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 10:31 a.m. Eastern on 2021-08-25.
Blue Origin launched a New Shepard suborbital vehicle on 2021-08-25 carrying research and educational payloads.