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Blue Origin’s latest rocket test didn’t just end in a fireball — it may have burned a hole in NASA’s timeline.
Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains why the explosion is a setback for space exploration.
Explosion of Blue Origin rocket is a setback for the company and for Nasa's Moon plans.
A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded during a test at the Florida launch pad Thursday night.
The incident is the latest setback for Jeff Bezos’s space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night.
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket dramatically exploded on the launch pad during a test on Thursday, in a setback for Jeff Bezos’ space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Video posted by NASASpaceflight, a YouTube channel that live-streams launches from Florida, showed the New Glenn igniting on the pad before erupting into a massive fireball that billowed skyward, sending a towering plume of flames and smoke into the air. Blue Origin said it had experienced an...
Nasa is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar fly-around. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four US companies. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moon’s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be...