Blue Origin rocket launches and latest news
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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Latest about Blue Origin
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'Wonderlab' host Emily Calandrelli will fly to suborbital space with Blue Origin
By Samantha Mathewson published
The Space Gal is headed into orbit, as part of Space for Humanity's Citizen Astronaut Program.
![headshots of six smiling people — four men and two women — are displayed in two rows.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iVgssmw6AytQz2Zr8QGeH7-320-80.jpg)
Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line
By Andrew Jones published
Blue Origin has announced the six crewmembers for its next space tourism flight. One of them will become the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line.
![Green shrubbery and sliver of road form a low horizon below a sunny blue sky. In the distance left of center, a short white rocket stands adjacent to a black tower. Much taller, right of center, reaching to the top of the image, a steel tower with black-barred extension arms reaching out near its base.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DyvXuMKbgtxAEshbVMFzT7-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida over environmental, safety concerns
By Keith Cooper published
United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin have cited safety and environmental factors in challenges to SpaceX's launch license for Starship at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Former cryptocurrency company plans reality TV competition to pick next Blue Origin spaceflight crew
By Elizabeth Howell published
A reality television series may follow a company's efforts to send the 1st Nigerian and others to space aboard a Blue Origin vehicle.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin could soon launch Nigeria's 1st-ever space tourist
By Andrew Jones published
A Nigerian could soon make it to space for the first time ever, via Jeff Bezos' aerospace company Blue Origin.
![blistering white flames burst from the two nozels piped on either side of the bottom of a rocket, fixed with two dark metalic engines shining through the smoke, shooting out a faint blue flame like two diamonds toward the ground.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X3XXSUzMyxQep4kEQUSN5f-320-80.jpg)
Pentagon picks SpaceX, Blue Origin and ULA for $5.6 billion launch deal
By Andrew Jones published
SpaceX, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance will compete for National Security Space Launch contracts worth up to $5.6 billion across fiscal years 2025 through 2029.
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'This was a life-changing experience:' 1st Black astronaut candidate exults after suborbital launch (video)
By Mike Wall published
Ninety-year-old Ed Dwight got to live out his long-delayed spaceflight dream with a suborbital launch this weekend. Here's what he had to say about it.
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Blue Origin launches 1st Black astronaut candidate, age 90, and 5 space tourists on New Shepard rocket (video)
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin sent six people to the final frontier today (May 19) on the company's first crewed spaceflight since August 2022.
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