![]() ‘Conquerors are always looking at what the other companies are doing and explorers are always looking at the horizon. We’re looking forward to going back to the moon at this time to stay,’Īs of September, Nasa was seeking proposals for the development of a lunar lander for missions beyond Artemis III and Blue Origin seems to be gunning for that contract.īlue Origin’s rivalry with SpaceX is hard to ignore but Wagner tells us about Bezos’ philosophy where ‘there are two kinds of companies: conquerors and explorers’. ‘There’s now Nasa’s Sustaining Lunar Development contract that’s coming up. While this was a blow for Blue Origin, Wagner says they’re continuing to invest in their lunar capabilities. It beat Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics which had both submitted proposals for the lunar lander contract. Last year, Nasa awarded a sole contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. Working and playing in space is not a far-fetched dream after all (Picture: Blue Origin) The last time Blue Origin made headlines it was because one of their rockets burst into flames, minutes after launch in September. ![]() My children were launching model rockets and they ran out to the field and brought it back and asked me for another motor because rockets fly again, right? This is becoming a thing that even school kids understand,’ she said. ‘The world is getting to think this normal now. ‘It will be a very large, Saturn V class rocket that will go and deliver large payloads to Earth orbit and to the moon and beyond,’įor now, the company is looking at the first stage of the rocket being reused buteventually wants to ‘reuse the whole rocket’. The same principle is being applied to Blue Origin’s newer rocket, the New Glenn. ‘The New Shepard rocket had its first flight in 2015 and became the first rocket to go up to space, come back down and be reused,’ said Wagner. New Glenn will be a Saturn V class rocket that will deliver large payloads to Earth orbit and to the moon and beyond (Picture: Blue Origin)
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