Blue Origin's Rocket Blew Up. What Does That Mean for SpaceX?
Blue Origin cannot catch a break -- but its misfortune could hand SpaceX a win.
Blue Origin's Rocket Blew Up. What Does That Mean for SpaceX?
Overview
Space is hard -- and it's a place where good news can turn into bad news in a hurry.
Two weeks ago, Blue Origin, the space pioneer established and run by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, was on cloud nine. NASA had just announced that, as part of its Project Artemis program to return humans to the moon, Blue Origin would launch not one but two separate flights of its Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) uncrewed lunar lander to deposit moon rovers on the moon.
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This was on top of Blue Origin being chosen to conduct NASA's Moon Base I mission -- the first step of Phase One of NASA's entire project to build a moon base -- by landing a third MK1 on Shackleton Connecting Ridge at the lunar South Pole. It was in addition to the company's win last September of another MK1 contract, valued at $190 million, to deposit a third rover (the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or "VIPER") on the moon in 2027.
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