Blue Origin is pausing space tourism flights for at least two years to focus on moon missions under NASA’s new timeline.
Houston: Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is stopping all space tourism flights for two years to work on moon missions.
The company announced this decision to focus all its resources on upcoming flights to the moon.
Blue Origin has been flying people past the Kármán line (where space begins) for five years.
The company plans to send humans to space again in 2028 or later.
Washington: President Trump wants NASA to send astronauts back to the moon before his second term ends.
This gives other companies like Blue Origin chances to work on moon missions.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket is scheduled for its third flight soon.
The company had planned to use this rocket to send a robotic spacecraft to the moon, but the lander still needs more testing.
Seattle: Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was the first to go to space and land back safely on Earth.
Unlike other rockets, New Shepard wasn’t made to reach Earth orbit.
It was mainly used for space tourism, giving passengers about four minutes of feeling weightless.
The rocket has flown 38 times and carried 98 humans to space.
Since its first flight, New Shepard helped people experience space and carried over 200 science experiments.
The program stopped for a while in 2022 after one rocket exploded during a test flight.
No people were on board, and the safety system worked correctly.
The company brought it back in late 2023 after fixing the problems.