Announces Commercial Space Firm’s April Engine Testing At NASA Stennis
WASHINGTON — NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is visiting Blue Origin in Kent, Wash., today. The company is one of NASA’s commercial partners opening a new chapter in human exploration by developing innovative systems to reach low Earth orbit as part of the Commercial Crew Development Program.
“Blue Origin is creating cutting edge technologies to take us to low Earth orbit,” Garver said. “Like all of our commercial partners, they’re making real progress and opening up a new job-creating segment of the economy that will allow NASA to focus on our …

Blue Origin, child of Amazons founder took another step towards having an operational system with at test flight in August of 2011. According to their web site “We’re working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system,” …  “Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we’re working on it methodically.” Their concept is to have a re-usable first stage that lifts the main payload and then returns to earth for for a soft landing under powered flight. Of course they will have …