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posted 05-30-2019 04:55 PM               

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At this point, I do not believe Blue Origin has contracted or has a need for either.

New Shepard is suborbital only and will be a flight suit, rather than pressure suit, environment. For Blue Moon, Blue Origin is only providing the descent stage. An ascent stage and any crew systems would be the responsibility of another company (or NASA).

New Glenn has been designed to be human-rated but Blue Origin has not disclosed any plans to design a spacecraft to fly atop it (or operate a service to do so). And Blue Origin's reply to NASA's commercialization of low Earth orbit concepts is only notional at this point.