It will be used to transport astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2029, following a pair of crew landings by Elon Musk's SpaceX. FOX13
FILE - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post via Getty Images, introduces their newly developed lunar lander"Blue Moon" and gives an update on Blue Origin and the progress and vision of going to space to benefitJeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out toBlue Origin received a $3.4 billion contract Friday to lead a team to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon.
Blue Origin is kicking in billions of dollars, on top of the NASA contract, to help establish a permanent presence on the moon. NASA’s Artemis program, which follows the 1960s and 1970s Apollo moonshots. kicked off with a successful test flight late last year. Launched atop NASA's new moon rocket, an empty Orion capsule went into lunar orbit before returning home.
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