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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The $1,000,000 grants from Club for the Future are funded by a $28,000,000 donation raised by the auction for the first paid seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies, working with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, Blue Origin, General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy, General Electric Research, Framatome, and Materion, received one of the NASA nuclear thermal propulsion concept study contracts.
Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin won DARPA contracts to develop spacecraft using nuclear thermal propulsion systems for the DRACO program.
Blue Origin included Wally Funk as a passenger on its 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight.
The fourth seat on Blue Origin’s 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight was sold at auction for $28,000,000.
Blue Origin conducted 15 uncrewed tests of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle before announcing plans on 2021-05-05 to fly people on New Shepard on 2021-07-20.
Starfish Space, founded in late 2019 by two former Blue Origin and NASA engineers, plans an all-electric tug called Otter as early as 2023.
Blue Origin sold the fourth seat on the 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight at auction on 2021-06-12 for $28,000,000 to an unidentified individual.
The fourth seat on Blue Origin’s 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight will be occupied by the winner of a 2021-06-12 auction who bid $28,000,000 for the seat.
Blue Origin plans its first New Shepard suborbital flight with people on board for 2021-07-20 from its West Texas test site.
Blue Origin developed the BE-4 staged combustion engine.
Blue Origin’s Human Landing System bid was $5,990,000,000 as stated in its protest filed with the Government Accountability Office.
$400,000,000 of the $850,000,000 provided in the final fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill was needed to support work on the three initial base period Human Landing System awards to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX.
Blue Origin opened a bidding process on 2021-05-05 to sell a seat on the New Shepard flight scheduled for 2021-07-20 from the company’s West Texas test site.
On 2021-06-12 Blue Origin concluded an online auction for the very first seat on New Shepard with a winning bid of $28,000,000.
A seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle sold for $28,000,000 at an auction on 2021-06-12.
The $28,000,000 winning bid for the New Shepard first seat will be donated to Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future.
The winning bidder of Blue Origin’s New Shepard first-seat auction will fly to space on New Shepard’s first human flight on 2021-07-20.
Blue Origin expects to deliver the first flight-ready BE-4 engine later 2021.
United Launch Alliance bid its new Vulcan rocket, which uses the domestically produced BE-4 engine made by Blue Origin, for the DoD launch contract.