Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully achieved orbit this morning, advancing competition with SpaceX and expanding NASA’s commercial launch options.
Wendy Whitman Cobb
Wendy Whitman Cobb
Wendy Whitman Cobb is a professor of strategy and security studies at the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
Starliner is important not just for Boeing and NASA, but also to prove that there can be multiple winners in the commercial space industry.
Launches like the first Starship test are successful failures that will help SpaceX reach its eventual goal of sending astronauts to Mars.
Abu Dhabi’s Mars Mission could enable a new generation of space exploration.
For SpaceX, this will be another step on its road to Mars.