Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin wins NASA contract to construct astronaut lunar lander | News24

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2019.

A workforce led through Jeff Bezos’ area corporate Blue Origin received a coveted NASA contract to construct a spacecraft to ship astronauts to and from the moon’s floor, NASA’s leader introduced on Friday, capping a high-stakes contest.

NASA’s resolution will give the company a 2d journey to the moon beneath its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX $3 billion in 2021 to land astronauts at the moon for the primary time for the reason that ultimate Apollo challenge in 1972.

Those preliminary missions the usage of SpaceX’s Starship machine are slated for later this decade.

The Blue Origin contract is valued kind of $3.4 billion, NASA’s exploration leader Jim Free stated, with Blue Origin privately contributing “well north” of that quantity, Blue Origin’s lunar lander head John Couluris stated.

Blue Origin has stated little about its newest moon lander proposal past naming its company companions, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, spacecraft instrument company Draper, and robotics company Astrobotic.

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