SpaceX had the first contract.
NASA has picked Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to make a lunar lander for an upcoming Artemis mission to the Moon, the agency announced on Friday. As part of the $3.4 billion contract, there will be one uncrewed “demonstration mission” ahead of a human-crewed demo that’s set to take place in 2029 for the Artemis V mission,Currently, the plan for the Artemis V mission is for four astronauts to first fly to the Gateway space station onrocket and the Orion spacecraft.
“Adding another human landing system partner to NASA’s Artemis program will increase competition, reduce costs to taxpayers, support a regular cadence of lunar landings, further invest in the lunar economy, and help NASA achieve its goals on and around the Moon in preparation for future astronaut missions to Mars,” NASA said.
Blue Origin is the second company to land a contract with NASA for a lunar lander for Artemis. SpaceX was the first,
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