Blue Origin, the private space firm headed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is set to launch its New Glenn rocket on Wednesday, sending two NASA orbiters to Mars. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

While traditionally NASA has launched its own spacecraft, satellites, and orbiters into space, since President Ronald Reagan signed the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984, the space agency has sought and used private space companies to help with the task. SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, has been at the forefront of recent private missions, but Blue Origin has entered the game and will even launch NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) to the lunar south pole in late 2027.

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