This is John Batchel, Bob Zimmerman, analyzing the failure of New Glenn to push a satellite into orbit because of a third stage underperformance,

meaning New Glenn's new rocket from Blue Origin is grounded until the investigation is complete.

This slows everything down because New Glenn is part of the operation and putting together for the moon landing 28, 29.

They have a contract for a moon lander.

Everything is going to slow down, testing everything.

And Bob here summarizes what this means for getting back to the moon before or while or in the,

in the atmosphere of the People's Republic of China.

More tonight.

Well, this almost completely makes it,

it's going to make it very, very difficult for,

Jeff,

for Blue Origin to build and test its lunar land, his man lunar land, do a test flight with the next year's mission, Artemis mission.

Jared Aikisman, NASA's administrator says he wants to do an orbital mission in which he would test both lunar landers in Earth orbit,

rendezvous and Doc in Earth orbit, tested and fly it around. Well, he said it's open to both companies, but right now this almost puts a blue origin out of the mix because they can't launch their landers. You know, they wanted to do an unman lunar landing this year and they were going to use New Glenn to do it. Well, now this is a problem. They can't fly that. The unmanned mission one, they wanted to do an unmanned lunar landing this year, and they were going to use New Glenn to do it.

Well, now this is a problem. They can't fly that.

The unmanned mission, they wanted to fly first before they flew their manned mission.

So this almost guarantees that if we're going to land on the moon in 28, as NASA wants to do,

Trump wants them to do, and I think is unlikely, even if they're all going to do it.

They're not going to do it with New Glenn.