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DEVELOPING: Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon | TechCrunch

Jeff Bezos space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for no less than two years in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Kármán line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five years.

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• Blue Origin made the announcement just a few weeks ahead of the expected third launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket, which is slated for late February.
• The company had previously suggested it was going to use the third New Glenn launch to send its robotic lunar lander to the moon, but that spacecraft is still undergoing testing at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Texas.
• Since re-taking office, President Donald Trump has put pressure on NASA to send astronauts back to the moon before the end of his second term.

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