Blue Origin joins NASA’s suborbital research flight program

by Jeff FoustJune 3, 2016January 23, 2023

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifting off on a Jan. 22 test flight. The company plans to increase the frequency of future test flights.

NASA announced June 2 that it has awarded a contract to Blue Origin to perform suborbital research flights as part of the agency’s Flight Opportunities program.

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Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The... More by Jeff Foust