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Blue Origin Explosion Will Set Back NASA's Moon Mission

TIME·Jeffrey Kluger·3 days ago
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It was never going to be pretty if hundreds of thousands of gallons of highly flammable liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and methane suddenly erupted. But that’s what happened at 9:00 p.m. EDT last night at launch complex 36 on the grounds of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, when a New Glenn rocket, built by the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin aerospace company, ate itself in a massive fireball during a test of its seven first-stage engines. The giant explosion hurled flames, gas, and debris hundreds of feet in the air, utterly destroying the 322-ft. rocket and partly destroying the launch complex itself. “All personnel are accounted for and safe,” wrote Bezos in a post on X at 10:13 p.m. “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying.…

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