Blue Origin Delays New Glenn's NASA Mission
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The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic spacecraft to Mars.
Blue Origin is targeting an afternoon launch window from 2:45 p.m. to 5:11 p.m., a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates. The massive 321-foot New Glenn will rumble into flight from Launch Complex 36 — a vantage point readily visible to spectators along the Cape Canaveral-Cocoa Beach oceanfront.
Two-time space traveler and billionaire Jared Isaacman had been on the cusp of becoming NASA’s next administrator last May when President Donald Trump yanked his nomination.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its camera to take high-resolution images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. We have yet to see them.