NASA Awards SpaceX, Blue Starting place, And 3 Other Firms $ 146 Million In Contracts To Hurry To The Moon
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The National Aeronautics and Advise Administration, greater identified as NASA , equipped this week the award of 5 contracts for $ 146 million to US companies, in conjunction with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Starting place , to design lunar landers.
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Concepto artístico de un astronauta de la misión Artemis bajando en la Luna.
As reported by Forbes , these deepest companies will work over the subsequent 15 months on varied projects for the constructing of the Artemis program to assemble sure that the return of humanity to the Moon in 2024.
Contracts are properly allotted, per the commentary from NASA:
- SpaceX received $ 9.4 million
- Blue Starting place made 25.6 million
- Dynetics used to be awarded 40.8 million
- Lockheed Martin to settle on 35.2 million
- Northrop Grumman to earn $ 34.8 million
The foundation is that the 5 companies own sustainable items of touchdown modules to incessantly transport astronauts to the Moon. Grand of what is designed for Earth’s satellite will apply to future missions to Mars.
Final April, NASA awarded SpaceX a contract for $ 2.89 billion to cruise astronauts to the moon, a resolution that has been wondered and debated by Blue Starting place, who also competed for that contract.