That lofty goal ran into a buzzsaw today with the publication of an essay by 21 current and former company employees accusing top company officials of sexual harrassment and a lax safety culture. It also wants to build a Human Landing System (HLS) for NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the lunar surface.īuilding rockets, engines and lunar landing systems are just part of Bezos’s very long-term vision of preserving Earth by moving heavy industry off the planet into cislunar space (between the Earth and the Moon) and rezoning Earth itself for residential and light industry purposes.

The first Vulcan launch is expected next year even though the BE-4 engines are late. Rumors are Star Trek’s original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, is among them.īlue Origin also is developing the New Glenn orbital rocket and the innovative BE-4 liquid methane/liquid oxygen engine that will power not only New Glenn, but the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Vulcan launch vehicle. Its next launch carrying people is coming up on October 12 and the company is teasing who will be onboard.

Credit: Blue OriginĪ roughly 10-minute flight of which several are in weightlessness, New Shepard is also used to launch science and technology experiments with no one inside the capsule. First crew to launch on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, July 20, 2021, L-R: Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk, Mark Bezos. An essay penned by 21 current and former employees accuses the firm of being “stuck in a toxic past” while NASA documents blast the company’s bid for the Artemis Human Landing System.īlue Origin launches the New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket that took Bezos and three others across the air/space line in July. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin finds itself under fire this week both from within and without.

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