Posted on 05/29/2026 9:07:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange.
Blue Origin said its New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week. No one was hurt, according to officials at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
“It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it,” Bezos said via X. “Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.”
The massive New Glenn was grounded in April after it left a satellite in the wrong orbit because of engine failure. It was only the third flight of the rocket that Blue Origin intends to use to launch landers to the moon for NASA, including the landers that will take astronauts to the lunar surface.
The company had been on track to launch a prototype lunar lander to the moon on a flight test this fall. Earlier this week, the space agency awarded Blue Origin a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to launch a pair of moon buggies in the next few years as part of the Artemis program.
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Well, back to the drawing board
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There is no crying in rocketry.
Why do all the official media sites have such crappy (distant) video, when X and Rumble have such good close up video?
Looks like the test failed.
Better now that when manned.
Love testing. Lots of testing!
Aerial view of the Blue Origin New Glenn exploding from Orlando Airport
https://rumble.com/shorts/v7ajh9k
“Why do all the official media sites have such crappy (distant) video, when X and Rumble have such good close up video?”
How about posting links?
Back in the early 2000s we booked a hotel room on Cocoa beach about 5 miles south of Cape Canaveral.
Not long after we checked in we discovered the hotel was full of support people trying to get a Delta II rocket off the launch pad.
After several failed attempts they finally had success while we were still there.
It went up around 11 pm and even being that far away it still shook the hotel.
I can’t imagine what that explosion must have felt like.
I watched them yesterday. I didn’t copy them.
That’s too bad as the more US rockets flying around the better.
Clean up on Pad-2.......
Look for a Chinese with a book of matches.
And get rid of the Chinese components and software.
LOL! Your Rumble link is a MSM article!
It wasn’t when Rumble posted it yesterday.
so that’s what about $100 million looks like going up in flames
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