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 plans to conduct two more crewed New Shepard flights in 2021, with the first scheduled for late September or early October.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-16 mission flew a crewed suborbital flight on 2021-07-20.
Blue Origin reported approaching $100,000,000 in private sales for future New Shepard flights.
Blue Origin built Launch Site One in 2006.
Blue Origin completed New Shepard’s first human flight on 2021-07-20 with four private citizens onboard.
Jeff Bezos has invested several billion dollars into Blue Origin, funding New Shepard, the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle under development, the BE-4 engine, and lunar lander concepts.
Blue Origin expected to fly two more crewed New Shepard flights in 2021 and planned many more crewed flights for 2022.
Blue Origin is on track to perform the first crewed launch of its New Shepard vehicle on 2021-07-20, carrying company founder Jeff Bezos and three others.
Blue Origin engineers were completing final checks of New Shepard’s crew capsule and propulsion module ahead of the NS-16 launch.
Customers who participated in Blue Origin’s 2021-06-12 auction were paying a premium for seats on early New Shepard flights.
Liftoff of New Shepard for the NS-16 mission is scheduled for 9 a.m. Eastern on 2021-07-20 from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One north of Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin announced Oliver Daemen as the fourth person on the NS-16 flight on 2021-07-15.
Blue Origin has not disclosed the winning bidder for the 2021-06-12 auction seat.
Blue Origin confirmed on 2021-07-12 that the New Shepard launch will take place 2021-07-20 from its West Texas test site with liftoff scheduled for 9 a.m. Eastern.
An anonymous bidder placed a $28,000,000 winning bid for a seat on the 2021-06-12 auction for Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard flight.
Blue Origin is awarding $1,000,000 each to 19 organizations through its foundation Club for the Future.
Blue Origin scheduled the first crewed New Shepard suborbital flight to launch on 2021-07-20 from the company’s West Texas spaceport.
Space Center Houston will use the Blue Origin grant to expand programs to reach disadvantaged students in the Houston area.
Blue Origin completed an auction on 2021-06-12 for a seat on the first crew New Shepard suborbital flight that sold for $28,000,000.
Blue Origin’s First Human Flight was scheduled to take place on 2021-07-20.