WASHINGTON - A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion (S$4.6 billion) Nasa contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon's surface, the US space agency said on Friday (May 19), a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk's SpaceX in another competition. Blue...
Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon Jeff Bezos unveils his space company Blue Origin's space exploration lunar lander rocket called Blue Moon during an unveiling event in Washington, US, on May 9, 2019.WASHINGTON - A team led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin won a coveted $3.
"I've said it before: we want more competition, we want two landers, and that's better," Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson said at an event announcing the contract at Nasa's headquarters. "It means that you have reliability, you have backups." "Honored to be on this journey with @Nasa to land astronauts on the Moon - this time to stay," Amazon.com billionaire founder Bezos said on Twitter after the announcement.
Friday's announcement was a long-awaited outcome for Bezos, who has invested billions of dollars for Blue Origin to vie for high-profile space awards with SpaceX, a dominant force in satellite launches and human spaceflight.
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