“Not the decision we wanted, but we respect the court’s judgment, and wish full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract.” This was the response of Blue Origin founder and leader Jeff Bezos, via Twitter, to a court judgement against the firm’s plea that NASA should...
William Shatner, the Canadian-born actor who played Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek TV and film series, finally got his wish to make it into space. He flew with three others above the “Karman line”, the official 100 km limit that marks space, aboard the...
Blue Origin conducted its New Shepard-17 (NS-17) suborbital mission carrying 18 experiments for commercial and institutional customers inside the capsule. Of the payloads 11 were NASA-supported, additionally it also carried an art installation on the exterior of the...
Blue Origin’s disagreement with NASA over its failure to win a contract for the Human Landing System (HLS) finally reached its apogee on 13 August when the company filed a suit in the US Court of Federal Claims. The nub of the company’s claim is that NASA failed to...
Blue Origin CEO and recent addition to the ranks of ‘astronaut’, Jeff Bezos, has offered to restore competition to NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) programme in an open letter to the NASA Administrator. In return for an HLS contract, Bezos has offered to cover the...
As planned, Blue Origin’s New Shepard made its first crewed launch on 20 July, the 52nd anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing. According to the company, Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen “officially became astronauts when they passed the Kármán...
