SpaceX wins contract to take man to moon, first since 1972 - report16 Apr 2021 22:24
Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX won a $2.9 billion contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fly human astronauts to the moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 - The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing an obtained selection document.
NASA has chosen SpaceX alone for the mission, after considering various combinations of work of several companies, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which partnered with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, as well as a defense contractor Dynetics.
SpaceX will launch the mission as part of its Artemis program, for which the company has designed reusable Starship spacecraft, intended to carry people deep into space and then safely land back on Earth. So far, all tested prototypes crashed, but Musk is hoping to have one of the spacecraft make it to orbit this year.
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