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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 ...
Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander will take astronauts to the moon's surface in 2029, on the Artemis 5 mission. It's the second crewed lander for NASA's Artemis program.
Blue Origin is preparing to land on the moon within the year, marking a significant step in private space exploration. The ...
However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and crew capsule to ferry astronauts between Earth and destinations beyond low ...
A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected Blue Origin to develop a lunar lander to transport astronauts on Artemis missions starting at the end of the decade. At an event at NASA Headquarters May 19, ...
Blue Origin's NASA contract is valued at $3.4 billion. "An additional, different lander will help ensure that we have the hardware necessary for a series of landings to carry out the science and ...
Blue Origin filed a federal lawsuit Friday to challenge a NASA moon landing contract awarded solely to rival company SpaceX, upping the ante in an already tense standoff over the multibillion ...
Besides the thrust level, NASA justified giving Blue Origin the task order, valued at $6.1 million, because the company plans to launch the mission in 2025.
NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon’s south polar region as soon as this summer.
Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos, had all bid on the contract for the system, which is seen as a key part of NASA’s plan to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Both companies are developing human landing systems for Artemis missions — SpaceX for Artemis III and Blue Origin for Artemis V. NASA later asked both companies to develop cargo-hauling variants ...