NASA to use Jeff Bezos' moon landing system for Artemis V mission
The tycoon's aerospace company, Blue Origin, will design the module. In return, it gets a contract valued at $3.4 billion.
Jeff Bezos enters the space race. Blue Origin, an aerospace transportation company owned by the tycoon, will develop a lunar landing system for the Artemis V mission after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded it a contract valued at some 3.4 billion dollars.
Through a press release, NASA informed that the system will allow two astronauts to travel from orbit to the surface of the Moon. Space Agency administrator Bill Nelson said:
This is the second contract awarded by NASA to an outside company. The first was awarded to SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company, valued at about $3 billion and to be used for the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions.