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“That means that physically the spaceflight came to an end.”

The NS-31 mission will be the 11th human spaceflight for the New Shepherd rocket and the 31st in its history.

“But that is, again, not what our human spaceflight program is about. We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.”

Today, with inflation further flattening NASA’s budget and the high cost of its current focus — human spaceflight — there’s another slump in large, strategic science missions.

“They have set themselves a lot of ambitious objectives and they have relatively limited spaceflight experience.”