NASA awards Blue Origin SLD crew lunar lander contract
The moon seen from the Worldwide Area Station on July 9, 2018.
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WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos has his NASA moon ticket.
The billionaire’s house firm Blue Origin received a key contract from the Nationwide Aeronautics and Area Administration on Friday to develop a crewed lunar lander for delivering astronauts to the moon’s floor later this decade below the company’s Artemis program.
The Blue Origin-led effort is successfully a greater than $7 billion mission. NASA’s contract award is price simply over $3.4 billion, officers stated Friday, whereas Blue Origin Vice President John Couluris stated the corporate will contribute “effectively north” of the contract’s worth as effectively.
“We’re making a further funding within the infrastructure that can pave the best way to land the primary people on Mars,” NASA Administrator Invoice Nelson stated in asserting the Blue Origin award. “Our shared ambitions now are not any much less lofty than when President Kennedy dared a technology of dreamers to journey to the moon.”
An artist’s rendering of the lunar lander.
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