{"id":83096,"date":"2026-05-29T07:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83096"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:39:58","slug":"blue-origin-rocket-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/blue-origin-rocket-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blue Origin&#8217; Rocket Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange.\u00a0Blue Origin said its\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/blue-origin-mars-nasa-new-glenn-bezos-4e3e6c380b8294b557618a6fea92282b\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">New Glenn rocket<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>exploded during an engine-firing test being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week. No one was hurt, according to officials at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too early to know the root cause but we\u2019re already working to find it,\u201d Bezos said via X. \u201cVery rough day, but we\u2019ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780040398\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Blue Origin&#8217; Rocket Explodes\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad Thursday night,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83097,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83096\/revisions\/83097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}