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Blue Origin Enterprises, ... Named after NASA astronaut John Glenn, design work on the vehicle began in early 2012. Illustrations of the vehicle, and the high-level ...
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
In January 2016, Blue Origin indicated that the new rocket would be many times larger than New Shepard even though it would be the smallest of the family of Blue Origin orbital vehicles. [21] Blue Origin publicly released the high-level design of the vehicle and announced the name New Glenn—with both two-stage and three-stage variants planned ...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration closed its review of Blue Origin's New Shepard investigation last year, agreeing with the company's findings. It required Blue Origin to make 21 corrective ...
Blue Origin is reinventing itself under a new CEO, who spent 15 years at Amazon. A culture change and new launch could help it compete with SpaceX. ... and needed to start manufacturing faster and ...
Blue Origin, the space flight project launched by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has set a goal to reach the moon by 2023. The plan, named Blue Moon, is aimed at preparing the moon for an eventually ...
There was an explosion on the test stand during 2015 during powerpack testing. Blue Origin built two larger and redundant test stands to follow, capable of testing the full thrust of the BE-4. [18] In January 2016, Blue Origin announced that they intended to begin testing full engines of the BE-4 on ground test stands prior to the end of 2016. [19]
Blue Origin NS-16 was the first human spaceflight from the U.S. state of Texas. Daemen, aged 18, and Funk, aged 82, became the youngest and oldest people to travel to space, respectively, until William Shatner took the record of oldest in space at age 90 on NS-18 .