Blue Origin is pausing its space tourist flights to work on lunar landers for NASA

Blue Origin is halting its New Shepard space tourism flights for at least two years to focus on developing lunar landers for NASA's Artemis program. The company will work on human landing systems for the Artemis III and V missions, including an alternative lander for Artemis III after SpaceX faced delays with Starship testing. Since launching its first tourist flight with Jeff Bezos in 2021, New Shepard has completed 37 additional flights carrying 98 passengers to suborbital space.