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The space companies of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk will develop the next lunar lander for the US space agency Nasa. Among other things, you eliminated Boeing from the awards race.
NASA illustration of the 2024 landing mission. The company of Elon Musk SpaceX and Blue Origin of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos want to build the landing vehicle (right). Boeing, on the other hand, has abandoned the tender. (POT)
(sda / dpa)
In addition to Blue Origin, the Bezos company, and SpaceX, Musk’s company, the third Dynetics company in the US state of Alabama made the final selection, NASA announced Thursday (local time) at a press conference.
Over the next 10 months, NASA plans to pay the three companies around $ 967 million (around CHF 938 million) to design a country before choosing a design.
NASA has announced that by 2024 American astronauts will land on the moon again, including the first woman. However, the so-called “Artemis” mission so far has been significantly more expensive than planned and is overdue. Therefore, observers doubt that this objective can be achieved.
