US EditionBezos' Blue Origin Pauses New Shepard Rocket Program to Focus on Moon Lander Efforts
- On Jan. 30, 2026, Blue Origin announced it will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years to `shift resources to further accelerate development of the company's human lunar capabilities`.
- To develop its Blue Moon lander, Blue Origin is working on Blue Moon Mark 1 for an uncrewed lunar launch later this year and Blue Moon Mark 2 for Artemis V.
- New Shepard has flown 38 times, including 17 crewed missions, carrying 98 people and more than 200 scientific and research payloads on about ten-minute missions.
- The pause removes Blue Origin as a commercial suborbital option for paying customers and surprised Blue Origin employees weeks before the New Glenn mega-rocket third launch slated for late February.
- Having paused before in 2022 after a booster explosion, New Shepard faces questions about its financial viability as SpaceX's Starship delays prompt NASA to consider other Artemis program contractors.
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The space company Blue Origin of the multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, announced Friday to suspend its space tourism activities to focus on the Moon, where it wants to compete with its great competitor, Elon Musk's SpaceX company. ...
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Blue Origin, founded by the multibillionaire, has been offering to bring tourists for a few minutes into space on its small New Shepard rocket since 2021.
Blue Origin announced this Friday that it suspends flights aboard its New Shepard space tourism suborbital rocket. Since 2021, New Shepard has offered 10-minute flights to the edge of space for wealthy people, celebrities and guests...
The billionaire intends to take advantage of the development delays accumulated by SpaceX, the company of Elon Musk, in an attempt to provide its alumni to NASA, before its rival.
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