Blue Origin
American aerospace company
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| April 14 2025 | Blue Origin completed its 11th human spaceflight and 31st spaceflight for the New Shepard Program with an all-female, star-studded crew of six. |
| 2025 | Revised planned landing date for the uncrewed Blue Moon lander (Mark 1). |
| February 25 2025 | Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission with New Shepard, sending six paying passengers to suborbital space. |
| January 16 2025 | Blue Origin reached orbit with the first launch of the New Glenn vehicle. |
| 2024 | Original planned landing date for the uncrewed Blue Moon lander (later delayed). |
| 2024 | NASA increased funding for the Orbital Reef commercial space station project by $42 million, bringing the total award to $172 million. |
| 2024 | Blue Origin announced successful completion of initial acceptance testing on the thrusters for the MK1 variant of the Blue Moon lander. |
| 2024 | Blue Origin received funding from the United States Space Force to assess New Glenn's capability for national security payload launches. |
| 2024 | Blue Origin won its first National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contract for New Glenn vehicle launches. |
| October 23 2024 | Blue Origin successfully launched NS-27 mission using New Shepard rocket, featuring the second human-rated crew capsule RSS Kármán Line and a new booster NS5. The mission carried twelve payloads, including two LIDAR sensors for the Lunar Permanence program and a reproduction of the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
| October 13 2024 | Second launch attempt of Blue Origin NS-27 mission was foiled by a GPS issue. |
| October 7 2024 | First launch attempt of Blue Origin NS-27 mission was called off due to rocket issues. |
| August 29 2024 | Blue Origin successfully launched the NS-26 sub-orbital spaceflight mission using the New Shepard rocket, marking another milestone in private commercial spaceflight. |
| July 2024 | Blue Origin was awarded a contract under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to transport the Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies payload. |
| May 19 2024 | Blue Origin's NS-25 mission launched, marking the first crewed New Shepard flight since NS-22 in August 2022. The mission carried six crew members to space, experiencing weightlessness at T+03:12 and crossing the Kármán line at T+03:31. |
| March 2024 | Blue Origin partnered with the United States Space Force to test Blue Ring's capabilities on the upcoming DarkSky-1 mission. |
| February 21 2024 | The full New Glenn vehicle was first unveiled on a launch pad. |
| January 8 2024 | Vulcan Centaur launched for the first time, successfully carrying Astrobotic Technology's Peregrine lunar lander, marking the first NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission using the BE-4 engine. |
| 2023 | NASA awarded Blue Origin $35 million for developing lunar regolith technology for solar powered systems on the moon, specifically for the 'Blue Alchemist' project which aims to produce solar cells directly from lunar surface dust using molten regolith electrolysis. |
| 2023 | Thrust chamber assembly testing for the BE-7 engine continued throughout the year, advancing the development of the lunar lander propulsion system. |
| December 2023 | New Shepard vehicle resumed flights after the previous grounding, marking a return to operational status. |
| October 2023 | Blue Origin announced the Blue Ring space vehicle, designed for orbital logistics and delivery services. |
| September 2023 | Blue Origin underwent a leadership change, appointing Dave Limp as CEO to succeed Bob Smith. |
| June 7 2023 | United Launch Alliance performed a Flight Readiness Firing of the Vulcan Centaur rocket with two BE-4 rocket engines at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. |
| May 19 2023 | NASA contracted Blue Origin for $3.4 billion to develop, test, and deploy the Blue Moon landing system for the Artemis V mission, including an uncrewed test mission and a crewed Moon landing planned for 2029. |
| February 9 2023 | NASA selected New Glenn to launch two ESCAPADE spacecraft, with a planned launch in Q2 2025. |
| January 2023 | Blue Origin delivered its first BE-4 rocket engine to United Launch Alliance. |
| 2022 | Victor Vescovo completed the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta during the NS-21 mission, having previously traveled to the bottom of the Challenger Deep and the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 2022 | Victor Correa Hespanha became the second Brazilian in space after winning a spaceflight ticket by purchasing an NFT from the Crypto Space Agency for R$4,000. |
| December 6 2022 | Blue Origin submitted a second bid for the NASA Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) competition with a new 'National Team' including Draper, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Astrobotic, Honeybee Robotics, and Blue Origin. |
| November 18 2022 | U.S. Space Systems Command announced an agreement that enables Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to compete for national security launch contracts after completing required flight certifications for Top Secret military payloads. |
| October 31 2022 | Blue Origin announced via Twitter the delivery of the first two BE-4 engines to ULA, which were being integrated on a Vulcan rocket. |
| September 2022 | New Shepard fleet was grounded following an uncrewed mission engine failure, temporarily halting Blue Origin's space tourism operations. |
| September 12 2022 | Uncrewed flight NS-23 experienced a booster failure, triggering launch escape system, with capsule landing successfully. |
| August 4 2022 | Blue Origin completed its sixth crewed spaceflight (NS-22) using the New Shepard rocket, marking the twenty-second overall mission to space for the company. |
| June 4 2022 | Blue Origin NS-21 mission successfully launched, marking the company's fifth crewed flight and 21st overall spaceflight to reach space. |
| May 31 2022 | Blue Origin announced the new launch date of 4 June 2022 for the NS-21 mission after the previous delay. |
| May 20 2022 | Original scheduled launch date for Blue Origin NS-21 mission, which was postponed due to a backup system not meeting performance expectations. |
| March 31 2022 | Blue Origin completed its third crewed New Shepard mission, NS-20, carrying six passengers including scientists and researchers. |
| 2021 | NASA evaluated contractors for initial demonstration missions and lunar lander system development. The Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) was aimed at landing NASA astronauts on the Moon as early as 2024, following an uncrewed demonstrator planned for as early as 2023. |
| 2021 | The company initiated conceptual design work on 'Project Jarvis' to explore potential reusability of the New Glenn's second stage. |
| December 11 2021 | Michael Strahan became the tallest person in history to reach space at 6 feet, 5 inches (196 cm) tall. |
| December 11 2021 | Cameron Bess made multiple space history milestones: youngest openly pansexual person in space, first openly furry person in space, and first child to fly to space with a parent. |
| December 11 2021 | Blue Origin's NS-19 mission launched on its sub-orbital spaceflight, carrying the final recipients of the FAA Commercial Space Astronaut Wings before the program's discontinuation. |
| November 2021 | Glen de Vries tragically died in a plane crash one month after participating in Blue Origin's previous NS-18 crewed flight. The NS-19 mission patch honored de Vries with his initials. |
| October 13 2021 | Second crewed flight (NS-18) with crew including William Shatner, reaching 341,434 ft. |
| August 26 2021 | The crew capsule landed at the Corn Ranch site at 09:41:15 CDT (14:41:15 UTC), 10 minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff, completing the mission. |
| August 26 2021 | The booster successfully landed on Blue Origin's North Landing Pad approximately 3.3 km from the launch site at T+7 minutes 27 seconds, using its BE-3 engine for near-hover touchdown. |
| August 26 2021 | The spaceflight reached its apogee at 347,430 feet (105,896 meters) at T+4:06, with the booster reaching an apogee of 347,032 feet (105,775 meters). |
| August 26 2021 | Blue Origin conducted the NS-17 mission, an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight using the New Shepard rocket. This was the 4th flight of New Shepard in 2021 and Blue Origin's 17th overall spaceflight. |
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