NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets.
We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available.
After Blue Origin’s New Glenn anomaly tonight it’s hard to not speculate the implications on the Artemis Program.
LC-36 is New Glenn’s only pad, and tonight’s event will likely put Blue out of the race for Artemis III.
For reference it took SpaceX 15 months to repair SLC-40 after the AMOS-6 pad explosion.
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.