Blue Origin

Katy Perry celebrated her birthday yesterday.

Where did she fly last year abroad? The Blue Origin...

Hang on a

second.

I'm being thick.

Maybe I am part of the 8 o'clock thickos.

Aboard the Blue Origin Space or London Luton Airport? Space.

Yes.

NASA is laying down some serious ground rules for agencies who want in on the 2028 moon landing, and it's committing to its Artemis 3 launch schedule for next year.

NASA is choosing between SpaceX and Blue Origin for the 2028 moon landing.

Both companies will participate in the Artemis 3 launch, which may be the most complicated one yet.

It will be practice for their smaller spacecrafts to connect and disconnect with the Orion spacecraft that lander shuttle astronauts to the moon.

His update came six months after the successful ARMAS-2 flight around the moon by four astronauts, humanity's first lunar trip in more than a half a century.

NASA will keep its options open as long as possible before choosing between SpaceX and Blue Origin for the Artemis IV lunar lander, according to officials.

Isaacman said that the new space race to land astronauts on the moon, racing against China now versus the Soviet Union during the Apollo era, will be much closer than it ever needed to be because of slow going in past years.

But the space agency is now accelerating its pace, he noted, eliminating endless meetings and bureaucratic inertia as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other companies scramble around the clock to meet the deadlines, and NASA bolsters its workforce.

Adopting Apollo's urgent and intense approach from 1968 through 1972, a period which saw 12 astronauts fly to the moon and 12 land on it, is not tech industry pixie dust or some new management philosophy, Eisenman said.

It's about our own history.

Both landers will be launched next summer for docking practice by the three NASA astronauts and one Italian who will blast into orbit aboard NASA's Orion capsule.

The mission will require three launches in quick succession from Cape Canaveral.

It would be the first lunar landing by NASA astronauts since the 70s.

The mission depends on SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop lunar landers, though.

Jeremy Parsons is NASA's Artemis program manager.

NASA and we intend to wait as long as possible to make a decision about which provider is ultimately going to provide the first American astronauts back to the moon in 2028.

NASA is preparing for both possibilities.

Artemis 3 will test both SpaceX and Blue Origin's lunar lander's ability to dock with the Orion spacecraft in the Earth's orbit.

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It would be the first time NASA astronauts went back to the moon since the 1970s.

The success of those missions, however, relies on SpaceX and Blue Origin, which are developing the lunar landers.

Jeremy Parsons is NASA's Artemis program manager.

NASA and we intend to wait as long as possible to make a decision about which provider is ultimately going to provide the first American astronauts back to the moon in 2028.

Instead, NASA is preparing for both possibilities.

Artemis 3 will test both SpaceX and Blue Origin's lunar lander's ability to dock with NASA's Orion spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

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NASA calls Artemis 3 one of its most complex missions ever.

It won't go to the moon, but involves testing the lunar landers NASA has contracted from SpaceX and Blue Origin while orbiting above the Earth.

The success of that mission will help determine which of the two companies NASA ultimately picks to bring humans back to the moon.

NASA's Jeremy Parsons says the agency will wait as long as possible to make that decision.

This is, again, really trying to go along with them in the development cycle, and we have dedicated teams working hand-in-hand with both providers, marching along the way, doing everything we can to accelerate.

If their landers are ready in time, both SpaceX and Blue Origin will participate in the Artemis 3 mission.

And both companies are prepared for an uncrewed lunar landing test mission by late 2027.

But only one of them would bring NASA astronauts back to the moon on Artemis 4 in 2028.

Musk also said Starship's next launch, its 15th test flight overall, could be the first for SpaceX attempts to return an upper stage to the launch site for the first time.

Another big question mark is, will Blue Origin be able to resume launches of its New Glenn rocket after the launch vehicle exploded in May in Florida, heavily damaging the surrounding launch pad? Blue Origin, which Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded in 2000, has worked to clean up and repair the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Space Force Station.

NASA indicated the rocket may launch Blue Origin's lunar lander, but that mission appears to have slipped to early 2027, according to the U.S. Space Agency's online calendar.

Four lunar landers were untapped to potentially launch in 2026, but as of mid-October, none reached the moon since two pulled off that feat in March of 2025.

There's optimism that at least one lunar mission could launch before the end of the year.

They're still trying to just to get their Leo's out for broadband.

That's where they've been struggling with the Blue Origin launches.

So it must make sense for Amazon to just let GlobalStar move forward with its original plans.

These are being manufactured by MDA, so there's really no benefit to Blue Origin or Amazon to let them do this, other than they'll have another constellation.

They can break into the direct device market.

Honestly, I do see some value there.

using liquefied natural gas in the SpaceX piece.

Blue Origin, SpaceX, a number of those companies are using, and they'll call it liquid methane, which it's the same as liquefied natural gas, but they're using that as a rocket fuel.

Lots of different opportunities, those emerging technologies, especially in space exploration, have created quite an opportunity for growth for liquefied natural gas.

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