The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will take orders to build a new manned spacecraft to land on the moon, symbolizing the latest victory of Musk’s company in the lunar-related competition.
Tesla CEO Musk (Elon Musk) space company SpaceX in 16 beat two major competition to build a “human landing system” (Human Landing System) spacecraft rivals, including Amazon founder Bezos (Jeff Bezos )’s Blue Origin (Blue Origin) and technology company Dynetics, to take 2.89 billion dollars worth of contracts.
SpaceX will use the “Starship” (Starship) prototype rocket to send astronauts to the moon, spacecraft as soon as 2024 to carry astronauts to and from the lunar surface and spacecraft; this contract is part of NASA’s “Artemis” program ( The contract is part of NASA’s Artemis Program, which relies heavily on private enterprise and commercial funding.
The Bezos-owned Washington Post (WP) reported that it was expected that the Artemis Program contract would eventually be awarded to Blue Origin, which organized the “national team” and partnered with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. ) in partnership.
NASA’s Human Exploration Initiative chief Kathy Lueders (Kathy Lueders) is a member of the NASA Human Exploration Initiative. Lueders (Kathy Lueders) announced that mankind has taken an extra step, which will lead mankind to carry a sustainable human login system to the moon.
SpaceX6 is scheduled to launch a rocket on the 22nd of this month to send four astronauts from the United States, Europe and Japan to the International Space Station.
NASA announced the contract for the first commercial manned rocket via videoconference, with SpaceX edging out Amazon CEO Bezos’ space company Blue Origin and technology company Dynetics in the bidding, aiming to send “the next male astronaut and the first In addition to putting the “next male and first female astronaut” on the moon, the goal is to put the first person of color on the moon.
With this contract, NASA and our partners can complete the first lunar mission of the 21st century while demonstrating NASA’s commitment to advancing women’s equal rights and long-term space exploration,” said Luthor, “This is a critical step toward perpetuating human exploration of the moon and looking at space missions in the solar system, including Mars. This is a very critical step”.
In response, SpaceX tweeted that NASA has chosen to use the Starship prototype to send the first astronauts to the moon since the Apollo program and is proud to assist NASA’s Artemis program in leading a new generation of human space exploration.
Musk also tweeted, “We are honored to be part of the Artemis Project” and “Long live NASA!” .
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