Blue Origin aims to land the next new Glenn Booster, then reuse it for the Moon mission
The first Mark 1 Blue Moon 1 is funded from Blue Origin chests. He is now fully assembled and will soon be shipped to the NASA Houston’s Johnson Space Center for empty chamber tests. Then, he will go to the Florida space coast for the final launch preparations.
“We are building a series, not a singular, but several types and sizes and ladders of moon to go to the moon,” said Remias.
The second brand 1 Lander will carry the viper of NASA to prospect water ice at the southern pole of the Moon at the end of 2027. At the same time, blue will use a Lander Mark 1 to deploy two small satellites to orbit the moon, flying as low as a few kilometers above the surface for scout for resources like water, precious metals, explorers of rare earths and Helium-3 that could be extracted and exploited by future explorers.
A larger, Blue Moon Mark 2, is at an anterior development stage. He will be classified human to disembark astronauts on the moon for the Artemis program of NASA.
Blue Moon MK1 Lander from Blue Origin, seen in the center, is larger than the NASA Apollo Lanar Lunar, currently the largest spacecraft to land on the moon. Blue Moon MK2 is even larger, but the three moles are overshadowed by the SpaceX spaceship.
Credit: Blue Origin
The other Lander, classified as the NASA crew, will be derived from SpaceX’s Starship Rocket. But Starship and Blue Moon Mark 2 are far from being ready to accommodate a human crew, and both require an orbital cryogenic supplies– something never tempted before in space—To pass to the moon.
This led to a little dilemma to NASA. China is also working on a lunar program, looking at a crew landing on the moon by 2030. Many experts say that today China is landing astronauts on the moon before the United States.
Of course, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon in the Apollo program. But no one has returned since 1972, and NASA and China each plan to return to the moon to stay.
One way to accelerate an American landing on the Moon could be to use a modified version of Lander Mark 1 from Blue Origin, Ars reported on Thursday.
If it is the path that NASA takes, the challenges of the next new launch and the landing of Glenn will go up even higher.
