NASA says the project is set to develop a human landing system for their Artemis V mission to the moon.
. “We are in a golden age of human spaceflight, which is made possible by NASA’s commercial and international partnerships. Together, we are making an investment in the infrastructure that will pave the way to land the first astronauts on Mars.”
The contract is worth $3.4 billion and will allow Blue Origin to create a lunar lander called Blue Moon, according to. The lunar lander is expected to transport astronauts to the lunar surface in hopefully six years. “Having two distinct lunar lander designs, with different approaches to how they meet NASA’s mission needs, provides more robustness and ensures a regular cadence of Moon landings,” Lisa Watson-Morgan, manager, Human Landing System Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in.
The news comes two years after Blue Origin reportedly sued after NASA gave SpaceX the first lunar landing contract, according toBlue Origin is expected to practice landing on the moon before astronauts are on it just like SpaceX previously did,
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