{"id":288541,"date":"2026-05-29T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:07:07","slug":"blue-origin-rocket-explosion-florida-congressman-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288541\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Rocket Explosion | Florida Congressman Reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 12:31 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A massive explosion at a Blue Origin launch pad on Florida\u2019s Space Coast is raising big questions about the future of America\u2019s return to the moon. In this video, Congressman Mike Haridopolos reacts to the dramatic fireball, explains what may have gone wrong during the static rocket test, and discusses what this could mean for future Artemis missions.<\/p>\n<p>NASA, Blue Origin, and space leaders are now racing to investigate the blast, repair the launch infrastructure, and keep the U.S. ahead in the growing space race against China and Russia. Plus, hear why officials say this setback won\u2019t stop America\u2019s push to return astronauts to the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 12:31 AM A massive explosion at a Blue Origin launch pad on Florida\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122157,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-blue-origin-rocket-explosion-florida-congressman-reacts","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}