The company has about 400 employees at several locations. It designed and built the single stage New Shepard rocket as a means of developing a reusable vehicle and to provide sub-orbital launch services for passengers. Kip Thorne, and the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission team.Ībout Blue Origin and Its Reusable Rocket Development Programīlue Origin is a privately funded company set up by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos. Some of the recent winners of Space Pioneer Awards include Elon Musk, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bigelow, citizen astronaut Anousheh Ansari, Dr. NSS has several different categories under which the award is presented each year, starting in 1988. The globe, as shown at left, which represents multiple space mission destinations and goals, sits freely on a brass support with a wooden base and brass plaque, which are created by the greatly respected Michael Hall's Studio Foundry of Driftwood, TX. The Space Pioneer Award consists of a silvery pewter Moon globe cast by the Baker Art Foundry in Placerville, California, from a sculpture originally created by Don Davis, the well-known space and astronomical artist. NSS chose Puerto Rico as a surprisingly inexpensive travel destination. If you seek to accelerate our pursuits beyond planet Earth and learn about the opportunities the emerging space economy can bring to science, technology and exploration, ISDC is the preeminent gathering place for you. National Space Society's International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2016 (May 18-22) celebrates the increasingly collaborative, multinational, multidisciplinary, and interconnected nature of space development in the 21st century: Space Beyond Borders. To learn more, visit Biographies for the Hopkins quote can be found at About the The International Space Development Conference® (ISDC). The Society publishes Ad Astra magazine, an award-winning periodical chronicling the most important developments in space.
NSS is widely acknowledged as the preeminent citizen's voice on space, with over 50 chapters in the United States and around the world. NSS is an independent nonprofit educational membership organization dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization. NSS invites the public to attend ISDC and witness this award presentation. The conference will run from May 18-22, 2016. This will be the 35th ISDC and will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel and Casino. Rob Meyerson, the company's President, will accept the award in the name of Blue Origin on May 22 at the National Space Society's 2016 International Space Development Conference® (/2016). Washington, DC | Posted on March 10th, 2016 Blue Origin To Receive the National Space Society's 2016 Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering Creating reusable rockets has been the "holy grail" for many in the space industry for decades, and is a fundamental requirement for spaceflight to be inexpensive enough for general and large scale use. (2) Subsequently, the same rocket was flown again and performed a second perfect landing in January 2016, which constitutes the first re-use of a large rocket which has reached space. 23, 2015 at the company's test range near the remote West Texas town of Van Horn. This flight by the New Shepard vehicle occurred on Nov. This award recognizes the company's two recent major achievements: (1) The first successful vertical landing by a large rocket which has reached space and carried a payload (an empty passenger capsule which descended separately by parachute). The entrepreneurial company Blue Origin is the winner of the Society's 2016 Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering. Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, inspects New Shepard's West Texas launch facility before the rocket's maiden voyage. Home > Press > Blue Origin To Receive the National Space Society's 2016 Space Pioneer Award for Science and Engineering
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