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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The assembly of the Gateway lunar outpost will begin no earlier than May 2024, NASA said in a statement Tuesday.

Feb 10, 2021 02:54 EST The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) another important contract for the former's lunar space station. Dubbed as the Lunar Gateway, the station is a non-critical part of the agency's Artemis program which aims to land U.S. astronauts on the lunar surface decades after the completion of the Apollo program. Today's award is the second Gateway contract that NASA has awarded to the California-based launch services provider, with the first one having come in March 2020,  when SpaceX managed to beat Th...

NASA has selected Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for two major components of the Gateway that will serve as a way station for future Moon missions.As part of the contract, SpaceX will provide launch ...

SPACEX has been picked by NASA to launch the first elements of the US space agency's most ambitious project to date, the Lunar Gateway. The Gateway will play a key role in NASA's rapidly approaching lunar programme, Artemis.

Blue Origin employees stand next to a pathfinder version of a cargo lunar lander. (Blue Origin via Twitter) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is testing a full-scale prototype of its cargo lunar lander, as part of its campaign to get a jump on heavy-duty deliveries to the moon. In a video posted today to Twitter and Instagram, members of Blue Origin’s lander development team provided a status report on their efforts. The pathfinder lander has been taking shape at the factory that Blue Origin recently opened in Huntsville, Ala. That factory is responsible for manufacturing t...