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Who won the lunar lander contract?
SpaceX
But in April, NASA announced that it was awarding just one contract, to SpaceX. The company will use the money for the development of Starship, the large reusable spacecraft the company is developing in South Texas, that is central to Mr.
When did SpaceX Wins NASA Contract?
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, won a $178 million NASA contract to provide launch services for the first mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The mission, called Europa Clipper, will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.
Can SpaceX’s Starship rocket land humans on the Moon?
An artist’s impression of a SpaceX lunar lander based on the company’s Starship rocket design. NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract Friday to develop the concept and to carry out two lunar landings, one an unpiloted test flight, and the second with astronauts aboard. NASA/SpaceX
Why did NASA give SpaceX a $2 billion contract for Artemis?
After evaluating three commercial designs for new Artemis moon landers, NASA on Friday awarded a single $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX, rejecting more expensive proposals from a team led by Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and another led by Dynetics.
Will SpaceX and Blue Origin work together to build a lunar lander?
Last year, NASA announced three different contracts for lunar lander development, which were awarded to SpaceX and Blue Origin’s “National Team,” with the expectation that the companies would each work to bring operational vehicles to fruition and compete with each other on price and technology.
Will Elon Musk’s SpaceX fly to the Moon?
NASA said on Friday it has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to the moon, picking it over Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics Inc.