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NASA's Human Exploration leg has split into two departments to better focus on future missions.

Blue Origin protested NASA decision to award contract to SpaceX Jeff Bezos firm says NASA used flawed judgment in giving contract to SpaceX NASA chose Elon Musks SpaceX to build the rocket that will fly to the moon SpaceX received a $2.9billion contract to construct the lunar lander  NASA gave SpaceX, Blue Origin and a third film called Dynetics initial phase contracts in 2020  Space agency was then set to choose up to two firms to build the lunar lander  Artemis mission set for 2024 will br...

NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the

Elon Musk’s SpaceX may be blowing up Starship prototypes left and right but the company has still managed to snag NASA’s approval for the Artemis lunar program. SpaceX’s Starship human landing system (HLS) is set to function as the Artemis lunar lander, which will land humans on the moon in… a couple of years. The contract is for a fixed sum and will net Musk’s company a tidy $2.89 billion. That’s about R41 billion in South African money. Space for SpaceX This arrangement is a littl...

SpaceX has won yet another significant human space exploration contract with NASA. This time, the company was awarded the sole, firm-fixed price $2.89 billion milestone-based Artemis program contract to send astronauts to the Moon on the SpaceX Starship rocket and to continue development of the first commercial human lunar lander. NASA announced the award on April 16. The California-based, Elon Musk-founded launch company beat out rivals Blue Origin and Dynetics for the massive award. The th...

Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Photo Credit: SpaceX In preparation to send astronauts to explore more of the moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration program, NASA has selected SpaceX (Hawthorne, Calif., U.S.) to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024. At least one of...

SpaceX will build the commercial human lander for NASAs historic Artemis program. The Orion spacecraft will carry four astronauts into lunar orbit, where two crew members will transfer to SpaceXs human landing system (HLS) for the final leg of their journey to the Moon. After a week of exploring the rocky surface, the pair will board the lander and ravel to Orion and their colleagues for a return trip to Earth. NASAs lunar exploration program, authorized in 2017, will land the first woman and n...

Apr 19, 2021 NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two astronauts to the lunar surface. At least one of those astronauts will make history as the first woman on the Moon. Another goal of the Artemis program includes landing the first person of colour on the lunar surface. The agency’s powerful Space Launch System ro...

Saturday, April 17, 2021 by Matthew S. Schwartz (NPR) Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon under the Artemis program. Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. NASA will pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the ...