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Blue Origin CEO pledges to repair ruined launch pad and return to flight by the end of the year
Blue Origin aims to repair the damage done by a launch-pad explosion and return to flight before the end of the year, the company's CEO says.
The red-hot space sector was feeling some heat on Friday, cooling from some of the spectacular gains seen in May.
Blue Origin's Launch Complex 36 facilities, which cost more than $1 billion, absorbed heavy damages in the massive May 28 New Glenn rocket explosion.
NASA has awarded contracts worth nearly $1 billion to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace Inc. to build and deliver early infrastructure for a permanent moon base, the agency's first major commercial procurement push under