The company built engines for the booster stage of the Vulcan rocket being developed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of the aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin.Ī portion of the far side of the moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion's solar arrays. Blue Origin has identified the cause and hopes to resume New Shepard flights involving both space tourists and scientific cargo later this year.Īnd some hardware manufactured by Blue Origin might finally be used on an orbital mission in the coming months.
That includes the failure of one of its New Shepard vehicles, which travel to space but not to orbit, during a launch last September that carried experiments but no passengers. The contract could start a promising rebound year for Blue Origin after a number of delays and setbacks. In the past, some members of Congress have complained about providing taxpayer money to Blue Origin, given Bezos’ wealth. John Couluris, Blue Origin’s vice president for lunar transportation, said the company was contributing “well north” of the price of the NASA contract amount to the development effort and that it, not NASA, would absorb any cost overruns. Lisa Watson-Morgan, manager for the human landing system program at NASA, said the second lander “also helps us with a more diversified industrial base, and that will help us advance innovation in the future.” You have backups.”īILLIONAIRES BATTLE: A Texas-sized space summer has billionaires racing for the heavens “We want more competition,” Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, said Friday at NASA headquarters in Washington. Astronauts are to land on the moon in a vehicle built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the Artemis III and IV missions. The mission, Artemis V, is another key piece of NASA’s Artemis program, which is to send astronauts back to the moon as part of an effort to explore the south pole region.
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