> According to Blue Origin's lunar lander head John Couluris, Blue Origin privately contributed 'well north' of the contract's $3.4 billion payout.
Seems like the NASA award is only is only paying for some minority of the total cost.
They've been to orbit the same number of times as Starship
And hundreds of fewer times than SpaceX as a whole. Surely a group who has actually been in space has more experience than a team that has launched a small dick rocket 80 miles up?
None of the contracted next moon landers have been to space yet
I think the question is, "has Blue Origin gotten anything into orbit?" (I don't know the answer, I think as of a couple years ago it was still "no", but then I stopped paying attention)
Yep the answer is still "no." Also their tourist suborbital is still grounded after an incident last year.
They did finally deliver some BE-4 engines to ULA though.
The next scheduled Vulcan launch date is in a couple months iirc, they have the first batch of BE-4s
This is a contract for a lander, it gets into Earth orbit on someone else's rocket.