Blue Origin to pause New Shepard flights in Texas. Here's why

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced plans to pause its New Shepard human spaceflights for at least two years to focus on developing a lunar lander.
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Blue Origin pauses New Shepard, shoots for the moon

Blue Origin announced on Jan. 30, 2026, that it will pause New Shepard flights for at least two years. The company, owned by ...

Blue Origin pauses trips on rocket that carried Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry and William Shatner to space

Blue Origin is pausing flights aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket New Shepard in order to expedite development of a lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program.

Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights. What that means for Florida

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that will launch in Florida.
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Blue Origin shutters New Shepard rocket program to focus on moon lander development

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The space tourism rocket that blasted celebrities like Katy Perry and William Shatner to space is shuttering operations, at least for two years, Blue Origin said on ...