44 45 NASA stated that it decided to add another human landing system partner to: 'increase competition, reduce costs to taxpayers, support a regular cadence of lunar landings, further invest in the lunar economy. Its technology builds on our experience with New Shepard with respect to LH2/LOX propulsion, precision guidance, vertical landing and landing gear systems. “Today we are excited to announce Blue Origin will build a human landing system as NASA’s second provider to deliver Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. In May 2023, Blue Origin was selected as a second provider for lunar lander services with a 3.4 billion contract. Blue Moon can deliver payloads to the lunar surface, host payloads and even deploy payloads during its journey to the Moon. Blue Origin is suing NASA over a lunar lander contract awarded to. Upon docking with the orbiting outpost Gateway, two astronauts will use Blue Moon to travel to the lunar surface’s South Pole region to perform science and exploration work for a week.īlue Origin said the industry team will develop a lunar lander and a cislunar transporter that will be powered by the LOX-LH2 propellant combination. Jeff Bezos discusses his brief space flight on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket at a July 20 news conference in Van Horn, Texas. The National Team discusses the engineering mockup of the crew lander vehicle. Under Artemis V, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will transport four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to the moon’s orbit.

The company said Friday it will work with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Astrobotic, Draper and Honeybee Robotics to design, develop, test and demonstrate its Blue Moon lander under the firm-fixed-price contract awarded through the Appendix P broad agency announcement of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships 2 program. NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a lawsuit from Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, further risking the agencys tight timeline to return astronauts to the.

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