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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded Draper of Cambridge, Massachusetts a contract to deliver Artemis science investigations to the Moon in 2025. The commercial...

Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy?

Austin company is on a mission to the moon with $93M NASA contract NASA has tapped Firefly Aerospace, headquartered in Austin, to land science equipment on the moon.  Courtesy of Firefly Aerospace. A local aerospace company is over the moon about its latest endeavor: a NASA-funded project to deliver scientific payloads to the lunar surface. NASA recently awarded rocket-maker Firefly Aerospace $93.3 million to deliver a suite of science and technology demonstrations and equipment to the moon in 2023. The award is part of a NASA initiative — and key to its moon-focused Artemis program �...

NASA picks Firefly Aerospace to deliver science payloads to the moon in 2023 Space 05/02/2021 Samantha Mathewson © Provided by Space An artist’s illustration of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the moon. A Firefly Aerospace lander will launch to the moon in 2023 as part of NASA's Artemis program.  NASA selected Texas-based Firefly Aerospace to deliver 10 scientific experiments and technology demonstrations to the lunar surface in 2023. The company's robotic Blue Ghost lander will touch down in a lunar mare called Mare Crisium, which is a low-lying basin on th...