Regarding comments on whether Blue Origin will develop a capsule, here is what is known:
1. From Blue's website:
ORBITAL SPACEFLIGHT
We’ve designed our suborbital vehicle to feed directly into our orbital program. With every suborbital launch, we’re reaching toward orbital spaceflight.
How it will work
The New Glenn family of orbital launch vehicles will carry astronauts and payloads to low-Earth orbit destinations and beyond. Similar to our suborbital vehicle, the first stage booster will separate and land back on Earth. Expendable second and third stages will propel the capsule into orbit, toward scientific research and exploration. At the completion of its flight, the capsule will reenter Earth’s atmosphere and land under parachutes, enabling reuse, improved reliability and lower cost access to space.
https://www.blueorigin.com/technology2. Space act agreements with NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-crew-program-the-essentials/#.V9vsYcup7qAIf you click the amount that Blue has been funded for in either CCDev1 or CCDev2 it opens a PDF of the contract, for brevity I've taken an excerpt out of that starting at the appendices focusing on the summary and milestones (attached).
In summary the CCDev1 contract focused on Blue Origin's conceptual follow up to their Sub-Orbital New Shepard system with a
composite biconic capsule with a solid motor pusher escape system initially launching on an Atlas 402. Funded milestones were for the escape system motor and composite crew cabin.
The CCDev2 contract makes specific mention of Blue transitioning to their own reusable booster after initially flying on an Atlas V. Mention of a land landing of the capsule is made in this contract. Further development on the biconic capsule through aerodynamic analysis, testing of the pusher escape motor, and development work on the BE-3 was all part of the contract. .
Now obviously that leaves a huge gap between then (2011) and now, I haven't tried to find if three is more recent information coming form NASA. Just on the launch vehicle alone like the one I posted earlier in the thread look like what would expect a 5xBE-3 booster to look like, and then initial rumors coming from ULA suggested BO was working on a 1xBE-4 booster. Some major changes on their capsule program could be very possible.
Is anyone aware of more recent info that might give some clues as to what they are working on?
Also I'm really unsure how a single centrally mounted pusher escape motor like the one shown by BO for their upcoming test would work with a rear docking capsule.