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Blue Origin reuses a booster as landers race for Artemis III

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Blue Origin's New Glenn flew its third mission and reused a booster for the first time, as SpaceX and Blue Origin race to ready lunar landers for Artemis III, and NASA picked Falcon Heavy to launch a European rover designed to drill for life beneath the Martian surface.

Reporting date: 2026-04-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Generated worlds become inhabitable

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Artemis II splashes down, closing a 53-year gap

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Blue Origin reuses a booster as landers race for Artemis III
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Reporting date: 2026-04-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-20-new-glenn-reuses-a-booster
Claim: Blue Origin's New Glenn flew its third mission and reused a booster for the first time, as SpaceX and Blue Origin race to ready lunar landers for Artemis III, and NASA picked Falcon Heavy to launch a European rover designed to drill for life beneath the Martian surface.
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- Welcome to April 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-20-2026
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