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Blue Origin is a private spaceflight company based in Kent, Washington that is working to send tourists to space on its reusable suborbital rocket called New Shepard. The company was created in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
In 2015, Blue Origin made history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket for the first time. The company is currently developing a lunar lander called Blue Moon that will make robotic cargo deliveries to the lunar surface, and it is partnering with SpaceX and Dynetics to develop a human-rated moon lander that will carry astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024 under NASA's Artemis Program.
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Congress wants the International Space Station to keep flying until 2032. Here's why
By Mike Wall published
Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to step into its shoes.

NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.
By Josh Dinner published
A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity's return to the moon?
By Josh Dinner published
In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.

'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon — and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'
By Josh Dinner published
NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.

Chinese space tourism startup eyes 2028 for 1st crewed mission, signs celebrity for future flight
By Andrew Jones published
InterstellOr is already taking bookings for its planned suborbital flights and says it has attracted its first celebrity passenger, highlighting China's growing commercial space ambitions.

Blue Origin pausing space tourism flights for at least 2 years to focus on moon plans
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin will ground its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for at least two years, in order to devote more resources to the company's crewed moon plans.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will refly booster on next launch of powerful New Glenn rocket
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin will use a flight-proven booster on the next launch of its New Glenn rocket. The liftoff, which is targeted for late February, will be just the third for New Glenn to date.

Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists to the final frontier after last-minute crew swap (video)
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin launched six people to suborbital space today (Jan. 22). It was the 17th human spaceflight for the company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
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