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flag Blue Origin paused its space tourism flights to focus on building a NASA lunar lander, delaying tests due to cold weather.

flag Blue Origin has paused its suborbital space tourism flights using the New Shepard rocket for at least two years to focus on developing a human lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program. flag The company, founded by Jeff Bezos, will redirect resources toward a $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft for the third crewed moon landing mission, while SpaceX develops its Starship for the first two landings. flag Previous New Shepard flights, which carried paying customers and celebrities like William Shatner and Katy Perry on brief, ten-minute trips from West Texas, will remain suspended. flag A critical test for the lunar lander has been delayed due to unusually cold weather at a Florida launch site.

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