24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... selected by NASA earlier this year to develop the Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) – a three-stage lander to be launched on Jeff Bezos’s own New Glenn Rocket System. Northrop Grumman will be providing the “Transfer Element”; a vehicle that brings...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
... delays, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon. Because of that, we’ve filed a protest with the GAO,” Jeff Bezo’s aerospace company said. In response to these protests, NASA has now informed SpaceX to stop work until GAO...
02 August 2021
US GAO upholds SpaceX's Moon lander contract
... "fundamental issues" with the original decision because of its limited jurisdiction. Recently, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, wrote an open letter to NASA offered to waive up to $2 billion in payments for FY2021-2023 to “restore competition to the...
29 October 2021
UAE and Blue Origin enter into space tourism partnership
... outlet published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the UAE is entering into a space tourism partnership with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin aerospace company. The deal would see the possible construction of a spaceport to allow space tourism...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... missions into low Earth orbit and more recently crewed missions from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to stump up $93 billion to finance the Artemis programme...
30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... flight in 2021, just nine days ahead of his billionaire rival, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Virgin Orbit spun out on its own from Galactic in 2017 and, in late 2021, rode a wave of investor...
