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“Blue Origin could perform the first lunar mission as early as July 2020, Bezos wrote, but stressed that it could “only be done in partnership with NASA. Our liquid hydrogen expertise and experience with precision vertical landing offer the fastest path to a lunar lander mission. I’m excited about this and am ready to invest my own money alongside NASA to make it happen.””
Perhaps Blue Origin could be working towards a heavy lift more capable that FH to replace SLS? I’m still hopeful for SpaceX and maybe Blue Origin to have cheap lunar landers. That would make lunar exploration/habitation more likely.
Cheap shot.
If the WaPo turns out a puff piece, that’s a story. But getting the exclusive? Not so much.
“Blue Origin could perform the first lunar mission as early as July 2020, Bezos wrote, but stressed that it could “only be done in partnership with NASA. Our liquid hydrogen expertise and experience with precision vertical landing offer the fastest path to a lunar lander mission. I’m excited about this and am ready to invest my own money alongside NASA to make it happen.””
So Bezo proposes Lunar landings in 3 years ?
Perhaps Blue Origin could be working towards a heavy lift more capable that FH to replace SLS? I’m still hopeful for SpaceX and maybe Blue Origin to have cheap lunar landers. That would make lunar exploration/habitation more likely.
The New Glenn should be comparable to the FH I thought?
The New Armstrong is the real heavy lift BO is planning.
Updated:
Just looked the New Glenn is close to the SLS numbers
Payload to LEO 35,000–70,000 kg (77,000–154,000 lb) (estimated)[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Do we know anything about NA other than that single throw away line from Bezos when he announced New Glenn back in September?
(Hell, has he even confirmed that it’s a real BO program and not just a throw-away joke he made?)
We spend an awful lot of time around here talking about phantom space systems.
The real ones tend to disappoint and anger us.