Blue Origin

5/28/2026 10:20:53 PM

The most casual way possible to say "THERE WAS A GIANT ROCKET EXPLOSION"

Quote :

"5/28/26 9:31 PM: An anomaly occurred this evening during a static fire test for Blue Origin. There is no threat to the general public."

5/28/2026 11:44:04 PM

Yikes and they were just picked for some kind of lunar mission

5/28/2026 11:46:13 PM

Not one carrying humans.

5/29/2026 6:15:13 AM

BIG badaboom. Like gigantic. I have coworkers at KSC that said it shook their homes. The explosion destroyed the pad. All from a static hot fire test.

Although they were just selected as one of the contractors for the new Moon Base program, as The Coz pointed out it was for an uncrewed lunar cargo lander. BUT. They are one of two vendors for the HLS program that are meant to be taking astronauts to the lunar surface from orbit. The other vendor also experienced a failure a few days ago (it didn't explode though-- not this time at least).

5/29/2026 8:23:16 AM

So, does this hurt or help the already unrealistic timelines

5/29/2026 8:30:21 AM

Video was pretty spectacular. Space flight is hard

5/29/2026 10:05:30 AM

Did a billionaire oligarch lose an inch in a dick measuring contest?

5/29/2026 10:42:59 AM

Sadly, you want Bezos to succeed here

5/29/2026 10:45:42 AM

Would love a video of the control room for this anomaly

5/29/2026 1:21:41 PM

^^ their calculations were wrong by 2.54 cm actually.

5/29/2026 1:39:36 PM