Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA’s lunar lander program — competing against Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts to the moon’s surface
announced Friday that Blue Origin will work to prepare its Blue Moon lander concept for a mission dubbed Artemis V, which is slated to take off as soon as 2028. Artemis V would be the third in a series of missions under
Administrator Bill Nelson added. “So with that in mind, Blue Origin itself is contributing over 50% of the total effort to get to not only this mission but to ensure permanence.” A sea change for lunar lander development SpaceX was awarded the first lunar lander contract — worth $2.9 billion — in April 2021, setting up the company to develop a version of its forthcoming Starship spacecraft for
unfairly favored SpaceX and arguing that the space agency would be better served by funding both SpaceX’s and Blue Origin’s plans to develop vehicles capable of landing on the moon. A judge ultimately ruled against Blue Origin, though about $2 billion less than it requested in fiscal year 2021. But
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