18, 2019, as taking part in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative.
Blue Origin was one of five companies announced on Nov. During the event, Jeff Bezos unveiled the companys prototype lunar. Artists concept of a Blue Origin commercial lunar lander on the Moon. The date of July 20 for the inaugural flight is significant – it's the same day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard Apollo 11's Eagle became the first humans to land on the moon. English: This photo was taken during a Blue Origin event in Washington DC in May, 2019. New Shepard lifted off from the company's facilities in Van Horn, Texas, shortly after 9 a.m. The crew took off on a special anniversary Daemen, whose seat was paid for by his father, Joes Daemen, CEO of Somerset Capital Partners, was put on the crew after the winner of an anonymous $28 million auction for the flight had to postpone due to a scheduling conflict. Riding with Bezos on the planned 11-minute flight were brother Mark Bezos as well as the oldest and youngest people ever to fly into space – 82-year-old pioneering female aviator Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, 18, a physics student. The founder of Amazon, who stepped down as CEO this month, lifted off early Tuesday with three crewmates on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle. On NS-21, Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle carried six people Katya. Blue Origin envisions a time when people can tap into the limitless resources of space and enable the movement of damaging industries into space to preserve Earth, humanity’s blue origin. Blue Origin's fifth human spaceflight, a mission called NS-21, launched from the company's West Texas site on June 4, 2022. Besides Bezos, the crew included brother Mark Bezos (left), 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daemen and 82-year-old pioneering female aviator Wally Funk. Blue Origin was founded with a vision of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.
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