NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this week that Blue Origin has been putting significant resources into the cleanup of its launch pad since the explosion of its New Glenn rocket there in late May.

Debris has been cleared from the massive explosion at Blue Origin’s launch site in Cape Canaveral and the company is now in reconstruction mode.

Nasa has said that the Blue Origin rocket is still part of their plans to return to the Moon - despite a massive explosion on the launchpad earlier this year.

The BE-4 engine is the “most powerful liquefied natural gas fuelled rocket engine ever developed,” according to Blue Origin. Watch it gimbal at full power in these hotfire test views. Credit: Space.co

Tom Carrubba recently joined the aerospace company Blue Origin as senior vice president of manufacturing operations.

NASA will provide an update about its moon base plans this afternoon (June 30), and you can watch it live. Agency chief Jared Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, the manager for NASA's moon base program,