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Concept map of NASA’s lunar lander NASA has signed a lunar landing development contract with three private companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics, to launch the ‘Project Artemis’ that will send humanity back to the moon by 2024. The Associated Press reported on Sept. 30. last month (local time).
NASA Director Jim Breidenstein announced in 2024 that three companies will compete and develop a lunar lander to send astronauts to the moon and eventually to Mars.
The three companies contracted with NASA are SpaceX, founded by CEO Tesla of Elon Musk, Blue Origins by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Dynetics, a subsidiary of US airline technology company Raydos.
SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, California, Blue Origin, Kent, Washington, and Dynetics, respectively, in Huntsville, Alabama.
“This is the last piece we needed to get to the moon in 2024,” said Breedinstein, and it will be the first lunar lander since the Apollo mission in 1972.
This contract is a 10-month project, which is funded with $ 966 million (about 1.18 trillion won).
NASA will evaluate each lander that establishes the concept for the next 10 months and then select the model with the highest probability of success.
Two more companies from Boeing and Vivace participated in the offer, but were eliminated.
Blue Origin Moon Lander The contract amount is Blue Origin, the highest at $ 570 million, Dynetics is $ 250 million, and SpaceX is $ 135 million.
SpaceX’s Starship Lander is so high that astronauts have to use elevators, and Blue Origin’s lander is tall enough to go down a ladder. The Dynatics lander is designed to be a few feet off the ground.
Leading SpaceX, Musk described the project in a conference call as “an opportunity to realize an incredibly exciting future of building a self-sufficient city, ultimately sending people to Mars after building the lunar base.”
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