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U.S. Space & Rocket Center Receives $1M Grant from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future

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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center has been selected to receive a $1 million grant from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future. The donation will support Space Camp and its museum operations, the center said in a news release. “Our recent auction for the first seat on New Shepard resulted in a donation of $28 million to our non-profit […]

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Blue Origin Mission Demonstrates Crew Capsule Upgrades

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It was a picture-perfect launch and landing Thursday for Blue Origin’s New Shepard program. Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, New Shepard is Blue Origin’s fully reusable suborbital launch vehicle. New Shepard is designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line (100 km), the internationally recognized boundary of […]

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