Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Space Hearing on Private Sector Lunar Exploration
Bretton Alexander Director, Business Development & Strategy Blue Origin
Excerpt
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin to bring about a future where millions of people are living and working in space. Our team of over eleven hundred people across the nation works tirelessly each and every day to enable this future. We believe that the backbone of this vision is to achieve full operational reusability with our launch vehicles, which will lower the cost of access to space at higher flight rates and higher levels of safety and reliability. We will get there through practice, and we’ve recently made great progress flying our fully reusable New Shepard vehicle to space and back five times in less than 12 months. We are now developing New Glenn, our next-generation reusable rocket that will launch people and payloads to low Earth orbit and beyond.
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