[rktman]

They don’t call them “blast zones” without a reason. Seen a couple of them pop.

[The Louiswu]

NASA and the Russians blew up a lot of rockets and even killed some folks before they started having real success in not blowing up rockets and killing people. Space travel is VERY dangerous, people will die, rockets will blow up.

[Sirius Lee]

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: ...Blue Origin had already been selected as an integral part of NASA's moon base plan.

It's almost as if though they're not supposed to mess with the mass of the moon which would change its orbit.

[rlmorel]

There was a video of people watching from a restaurant some miles away, and if you didn't know it was a rocket blowing up, you would surely have thought it was a nuclear strike.

[Organic Panic]

Every failure in aerospace is a successful test. Expensive, but successful.

[RckyRaCoCo]

It blow’d up real good.

[SunkenCiv]

If the BO's lunar lander test is to happen this year, likely will require the Falcon Heavy, which actually has more payload capacity than the NG anyway.

• Video: Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida [05/28/2026]

[Jim Noble]

SpaceX > NASA >> Blue Origin

Public-Private partnerships are great - as long as the private partner is selected for the right reason.

Blue Horizon isn’t even playing in the same league with SpaceX.

[Libloather]

Check the gaskets. It’s always the gaskets.

[wardamneagle]

Clean up on Pad-2......

[markman46]

lets just say from the picture i have seen the pad area needs a complete rebuild. a rebuild will take a year at least

[minnesota_bound]

Bezos needs to contact Katy Perry and have her figure out how to make the rocket work...