Why Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin could be a problem for NASA
This Is Why
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A Blue Origin rocket explosion during a test launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida could have huge implications for Jeff Bezos' ambitions in space.
His company had just won a big NASA contract to deliver lunar landers to the moon using his New Glenn rockets which are specifically designed to carry cargo.
The failure will also affect NASA's moon plans, which already included little margin for error.
Sky's science and technology correspondent Mickey Carroll joins Mhari Aurora to discuss what the explosion means for Blue Origin, getting humans back on the moon and the space race.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.4 | When a blue origin rocket blew up in a test launch, it created one of the biggest rocket explosions in history, and it also set back Jeff Bezos's space ambitions. |
| 0:20.8 | And this is why. |
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