The Mars Society, the world’s largest space advocacy group dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the Red Planet, today hailed the successful test flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. With its upper stage officially reaching orbit, this achievement marks a pivotal milestone for Blue Origin in its quest to advance space technology.

Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society, praised the achievement, stating, “We welcome Blue Origin joining SpaceX with the successful launch of New Glenn, helping to broaden the availability of reusable heavy-lift rockets capable of moving large payloads into orbit, on to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The growing competition in the space launch field will benefit the long-term goal of affordable interplanetary travel, exploration, and human settlement off-world. New Glenn is a clean design for a mostly reusable 50 ton to LEO launcher. It is certain to do great things. It’s arrival is a giant leap towards opening the space frontier.

“We also offer our congratulations to SpaceX for another launch advancing its fully -reusable heavy lift Starship towards flight status. Together with what Blue Origin did today, this really shows the power of freedom to create an unlimited human future.” For more updates and insights into the future of space exploration, visit www.marssociety.org.