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Posted on 3/26/2025
Offers suborbital space tourism experiences
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Blue Origin focuses on making space travel accessible through suborbital space tourism. The company offers unique experiences where passengers can travel to the edge of space aboard its reusable rocket, New Shepard. This rocket takes passengers on an 11-minute journey, allowing them to experience several minutes of weightlessness and stunning views of Earth from over 100 kilometers above. Blue Origin generates revenue by selling premium tickets for these flights, targeting affluent individuals and space enthusiasts. Unlike many competitors, Blue Origin not only provides space tourism but is also developing advanced rocket engines and technologies for potential sales to other aerospace companies and government agencies. The company's goal is to expand the market for space tourism and explore new opportunities in lunar landers and other space exploration technologies.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$116.1M
Headquarters
Kent, Washington
Founded
2000
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With the number of people in STEM occupations projected to grow over the next decade, an Arlington startup wants to lower barriers to that career path. Lingo develops and sells educational, STEM-focused kits to teach students in middle and high school, as well as in college. Projects highlight both software and hardware, with one kit showing how to build and code a backup sensor for a car. Aisha Bowe, CEO and founder of Lingo and a former NASA rocket scientist, wanted to provide hands-on learning to students — an option she wished she had growing up herself. The traditional school model of memorizing and repeating information didn’t work for her, she explained. “It really was a labor of love,” Bowe told Technical.ly. “It was almost as though we were making something for our younger selves.”About 10,000 students have used Lingo kits across the US and in England, per Bowe. She and her team of three, who all have extensive engineering backgrounds, develop the kits themselves. Cofounder and COO Jarvis Sulcer has a master’s and PhD in nuclear science and engineering from Cornell University, for example. Bowe is also heading to space on a celebrity-filled Blue Origin flight, which will launch sometime this spring
The nozzle of Blue Origin’s donated BE-3U rocket engine gets shined up during installation at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. (Museum of Flight Photo)Seattle’s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that’s been donated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture.The BE-3U rocket engine, which was used for on-the-ground development work that included hot-fire testing, was installed in the museum’s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on Monday. Eventually, a 16-foot-tall model of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket will take its place beside the engine.Two BE-3U engines power the upper stage of the New Glenn orbital-class rocket, which was sent into orbit from the Kent, Wash.-based company’s Florida launch pad for the first time in January. That mission served to test not only the rocket, but also prototype components for Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft platform. The next New Glenn launch is expected in late spring.This isn’t the first time Bezos has played a role in getting rocket artifacts into the Museum of Flight. A decade ago, the museum unveiled pieces from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA’s Apollo 12 and Apollo 16 missions to the moon
Designed to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals, the kits allow users to simulate a rocket launch countdown and prototype an earth sensing satelliteARLINGTON, Va., March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LINGO, the maker of innovative STEM lesson kits that have empowered over 10,000 students with hands-on engineering and coding skills, has launched two new space-themed kits just as founder and CEO Aisha Bowe prepares to make history on Blue Origin's NS-31 mission, which features the first all-female spaceflight crew since 1963.From community college to NASA engineer to space, Bowe's journey models what she hopes to inspire through LINGO: the belief that STEM careers are within reach for all students
An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon MK1 lander on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration)NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon’s south polar region as soon as this summer.The uncrewed lander would rank as the largest spacecraft sent to the moon’s surface, and would set the stage for a larger crewed lander that would be used for moon missions in the 2030s. By that time, if all proceeds according to plan, SpaceX’s Starship would take over the top spot as the world’s most massive moon ship.Blue Origin was created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000 and is headquartered in Kent, Wash. For years, Bezos has voiced a strong interest in lunar exploration. “It’s time to go back to the moon, but this time to stay,” he declared in 2017.NASA’s payload for Blue Origin’s first mission to the moon is a suite of cameras that’s designed to record how the blast from Blue Moon’s engines disturbs the dirt and rocks at the lunar landing site. The data from that experiment — known as Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies, or SCALPSS — would be factored into the preparations for crewed landings.Similar payloads flew on Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander, which conducted a partially successful mission on the moon last year; and on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost M1 lander, which landed on the moon earlier this month
Blue Origin’s NS-31 spacefliers include Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; pop superstar Katy Perry; and Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, three advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and math. (Blue Origin Photos)The next suborbital spaceflight planned by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is due to follow through on the dream of Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, to lead an all-woman crew — and that crew will include pop superstar Katy Perry and morning-TV host Gayle King.Three advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, will round out the six-person crew for a mission known as NS-31, Blue Origin announced today. The date for the flight hasn’t yet been announced, but the company says it will launch this spring.“This will be the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963,” Blue Origin said in a reference to the Soviet space pioneer.In a posting to Threads, Sanchez called her crewmates “fearless explorers.”“I really see this group as explorers, and storytellers, each of us about to be changed by a remarkable view of our beautiful planet,” she said. “The countdown starts now!”Sanchez talked about her desire to go into space with other women more than two years ago in a Wall Street Journal interview. At the time, she said her five crewmates would be “women who are making a difference in the world and who are impactful and have a message to send.”“I’m super-excited about it. And a little nervous,” she said.Sanchez, a licensed helicopter pilot and former TV news anchor, first started dating Bezos in 2019 after the announcement of his divorce from MacKenzie Scott