![]() Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The company brought the ship to Florida for conversion in late 2020, and held a renaming ceremony for the vessel in December 2020. “Blue Origin is committed to safe and cost-effective access to space, and after careful consideration have made the decision to transition away from the Jacklyn as a landing solution,” a company spokesperson told media this week.īlue Origin originally acquired the roll-on, roll-off cargo ship Stena Freighter in 2018. There have been no details released to media about why the conversion has been stopped. However, in a video released by the port on social media, port director Clark Merritt states that the ship will now be scrapped in Brownsville because the process of converting the ship into a landing platform had gone too far to convert it back to a cargo vessel. The vessel, which is named Jacklyn after Bezos’ mother, was a former cargo vessel that was undergoing conversion into a landing platform for the company’s New Glenn rocket boosters. A large landing ship that was set to catch rockets for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceflight company has reportedly been removed from its berth in the Port of Pensacola, Florida, bound for a scrapyard in Brownsville, Texas.
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