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SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion Contract For Next Lunar Lander
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Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon under the Artemis program.
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NASA will pay Elon Musk s SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon.
SpaceX was one of three companies chosen last year to develop technology for NASA s Human Landing System program. On Friday NASA announced SpaceX s Starship design had beat out the other two companies for the contract.
It s the first time the space agency has used a human lander built by a private company, and it marks an important milestone for an agency that has in recent years depended on commercial partnerships for its most important missions.
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NASA picks SpaceX to build Artemis program s lunar lander UPDATED 7:44 PM ET Apr. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:32 PM ET Apr. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:32 PM EDT Apr. 16, 2021
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Nearly a year after announcing that three companies would compete for the chance to build the Human Landing System, NASA’s next vehicle to land humans on the Moon, NASA announced Friday that SpaceX would win that contract.
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NASA has tapped SpaceX to design and build the Artemis program s lunar lander
The Artemis program is NASA s attempt to return humans to the moon by 2024
Blue Origin and Dynetics were the other two groups competing for the contract