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NASA Director Promotes New Voyage to Blue Moon. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch the company’s first moon, Blue Moon Mark 1, sometime this fall. The Blue Moon test mission is an important precursor to Blue Origin’s future rated Moon lander for the Artemis program, and NASA is eager to see it fly. A rocket explosion at the launch site last week makes this year’s New Glenn launch impossible. NASA is now looking to find another way to launch Blue Origin’s first Blue Moon mission, Spaceflight Now reports. In an interview with FOX Business On Thursday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman described the “government response” to what happened on May 28 with New Glenn. “We’re also removing the launcher from the launch vehicle and the pad itself,” he said.
Only one way... “NASA is laser focused on the lander because we are focused on our mission to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon before the year 2028, and we will be able to keep the astronauts moving forward, they are moving forward, so that they will be available for our test mission in 2027, which is Artemis III, and available to achieve our 202 Isaac goals.
A NASA spokesperson confirmed to Spaceflight Now that NASA wants to see the launch of the Blue Moon Mark 1 payload and possibly the Blue Moon Mark 2 crew on a rocket other than New Glenn. For the Mark 1, perhaps, the only reliable option is SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, but there are several obstacles to making this possible.
Artemis III boosters are sent to KSC. Despite uncertainty about when and who will land, the Artemis III mission rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Northrop Grumman began shipping all solid rocket components for the Space Launch System (SLS) from Utah on Tuesday, June 2, NASASpaceflight reports. The Union Pacific train will deliver the remaining eight units to Kennedy, joining other boosters sent to the launch site in Florida.
