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NASA’s Artemis II: Why 4 astronauts will orbit the moon but never land

NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the Moon without touching its surface, a deliberate choice that ...
Entrepreneur

NASA Awards SpaceX, Blue Origin, and 3 Other Companies $146 Million In Contracts to Make Moon Lander Designs

NASA announced on Tuesday that it had awarded five US companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, a total of $146 million in contracts to develop moon-lander designs. The ...
Yahoo

NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad

A NASA depiction of a SpaceX Starship Human Landing System on the Moon, with two astronauts at its base and the Earth visible beyond - Credit: NASA SpaceX's most important customer is officially ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Lunar Starship was never meant to come home to Earth, SpaceX admits

SpaceX’s lunar Starship was never designed to blaze back through Earth’s atmosphere in a shower of plasma. Instead, the ...
Gizmodo

Blue Origin Shows Off Its MK1 Lunar Lander—and It’s Way Bigger Than Apollo’s

The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...
KRDO

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

But to expedite the creation of a lunar lander that could be used for the Artemis III mission, Blue Origin plans to propose a new design that leverages elements of both Mark 1 and Mark 2, according to ...
AOL

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...