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Comment by ttepasse

2 days ago

Back in the 2010s Blue Origin had a naming scheme after the pioneering flights of American astronauts:

The suborbital rocket New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard who was the first American astronaut and whose flight was a suborbital arc.

New Glenn is named after John Glenn whose first flight was the first orbital flight.

There was also talk of a New Armstrong rocket, although Neil Armstrong wasn’t the first American to "reach" the Moon. But then together with Buzz he was the first to land and the first to walk. I don’t know if New Armstrong's still getting developed.