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Blue Origin donated the $28,000,000 winning bid from the first-crew auction to charities.
A winning bid of $28,000,000 for a seat on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard flight was placed by Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Lin.
Blue Origin is developing and launching rockets in Texas and is based in Washington state.
Part of the work for the three CLD award teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will be to improve the fidelity of their estimated prices for commercial station services.
NASA elected to award Space Act Agreements to Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to provide a balanced risk spread for achieving at least one commercial LEO destination during the course of the project.
Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will receive more than $400,000,000 combined through 2025 to mature designs of commercial space stations under the CLD program.
NASA selected proposals led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman on 2021-12-02 for funded Space Act Agreements under the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program.
Blue Origin argued that the NPRM would create duplicative and conflicting incident investigation authorities between the FAA and NTSB and could lead to unlimited and non-statutory NTSB authority to initiate investigations even without vehicle damage or serious injury.
Blue Origin has not yet delivered flight-ready BE-4 engines required for Vulcan Centaur’s maiden flight as of early 2022.
United Launch Alliance projected receiving Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines in mid-2022 and flying the Vulcan Centaur by the end of 2022.
Blue Origin’s direct employment in Brevard has reached 1,000 workers.
Blue Origin has more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing, test, and launch facility space in Brevard.
Blue Origin has invested more than $1,500,000,000 in capital in Brevard.
Blue Origin signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with U.S. Transportation Command on 2021-12-17.
Blue Origin is developing a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle called New Glenn with a reusable first stage.
The $28,000,000 Justin Sun paid in the auction went to Club for the Future, a charity affiliated with Blue Origin.
Justin Sun submitted the winning bid of $28,000,000 for a seat on Blue Origin’s July New Shepard flight.
Blue Origin completed its first human flight on 2021-07-20 and returned from suborbital space above the Kármán line.
Blue Origin’s foundation Club for the Future directed funds from the $28,000,000 bid to 19 space-based charities.
Blue Origin operates the New Shepard suborbital vehicle and is developing the New Glenn launch vehicle.