The SLD program was effectively a second-chance contest that NASA organized after Elon Musk's SpaceX was the sole contract winner in 2021.
Blue Origin won a key contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday to develop a crewed lunar lander for delivering astronauts to the moon's surface later this decade.The moon seen from the International Space Station on July 9, 2018.
"We're making an additional investment in the infrastructure that will pave the way to land the first humans on Mars," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in announcing the Blue Origin award. "Our shared ambitions now are no less lofty than when President Kennedy dared a generation of dreamers to journey to the moon."he's "honored to be on this journey with @NASA to land astronauts on the Moon — this time to stay.
Both HLS and SLD are part of NASA's Artemis program to land astronauts on the moon, with the agency hoping to start flying crews to the lunar surface within the next few years. In December,
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