Musk and Bezos Space Firms Win Contracts to Develop NASA Moon Lander
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NASA awarded contracts valued at almost $1 billion to companies including Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to develop a moon lander.
The research contracts represent “the crown jewel” in the Trump administration’s effort to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, Doug Loverro, the U.S. space agency’s associate administrator for human exploration, said Thursday. Dynetics, an Alabama-based subsidiary of Leidos Holdings Inc., also was a winner.