{"id":17135,"date":"2025-03-18T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-rocket-engine-gives-a-boost-to-museum-of-flights-simonyi-space-gallery\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:04:20","slug":"blue-origin-rocket-engine-gives-a-boost-to-museum-of-flights-simonyi-space-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-rocket-engine-gives-a-boost-to-museum-of-flights-simonyi-space-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin rocket engine gives a boost to Museum of Flight\u2019s Simonyi Space Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timothy Hinerman, a program manager at Blue Origin, polishes up the nozzle of a BE-3U rocket engine during installation at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight. (Museum of Flight Photo \/ Ted Huetter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that\u2019s been donated by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture.<\/p>\n

The BE-3U rocket engine, which was used for on-the-ground development work that included hot-fire testing, was installed in the museum\u2019s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery on Monday. Eventually, a 16-foot-tall model of Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket will take its place beside the engine.<\/p>\n

Two BE-3U engines power the upper stage of the New Glenn orbital-class rocket, which was sent into orbit from the Kent, Wash.-based company\u2019s Florida launch pad for the first time in January. That mission served to test not only the rocket, but also prototype components for Blue Origin\u2019s Blue Ring spacecraft platform. The next New Glenn launch is expected in late spring.<\/p>\n

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Blue Origin employees were on hand for the installation of the BE-3U engine at the Museum of Flight\u2019s Simonyi Space Gallery. From left: Matt Maier, Timothy Hinerman, Colter Krantz, Alexander Pagel, Alex Pages and Gabrielle Nwachukwu. (Museum of Flight Photo \/ Ted Huetter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Bezos has played a role in getting rocket artifacts into the Museum of Flight. A decade ago, the museum unveiled pieces from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA\u2019s Apollo 12 and Apollo 16 missions to the moon. The components from the discarded Saturn V first-stage boosters were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with support from Bezos Expeditions.<\/p>\n

The Simonyi Space Gallery \u2014 which is named after Charles Simonyi, a billionaire software pioneer and museum patron \u2014 highlights the recent history of spaceflight, including commercial space initiatives. <\/p>\n

Other artifacts in the gallery include a full-scale mockup of a space shuttle fuselage that was used for training NASA astronauts; and a module from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that Simonyi rode to the International Space Station for his second privately funded space trip in 2009.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timothy Hinerman, a program manager at Blue Origin, polishes up the nozzle of a BE-3U rocket engine during installation at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight. (Museum of Flight Photo \/ Ted Huetter) Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that\u2019s been donated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4449,509,4450,4029],"class_list":["post-17135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-be-3u-rocket-engine","tag-blue-origin","tag-museum-of-flight","tag-space-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}