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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 three companies received nearly $1 billion in April 2020 to design and develop Human Landing Systems (...

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 those astronauts will make history as the first woman on the moon. Another goal of the Artemis prog...

SpaceX will build the commercial human lander for NASA's historic Artemis program. The Orion spacecraft will carry four astronauts into lunar orbit, where two crew members will transfer to SpaceX's 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. NASA's lunar exploration program, authorized in 2017, will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024, and help establish a sustainable human lunar presence by the end of ...

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 rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for their multi-day journey to lunar or...

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 surface of the moon. SpaceX was one of three companies chosen last year to develop technology for NA...