Bezos' Blue Origin Wins $3.4 Billion NASA Contract to Land Astronauts on the Moon
- Blue Origin won a $3.4 billion NASA contract to develop a spacecraft for human landing on the moon under the Artemis program.
- Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' rocket company, has won a $3.4 billion NASA contract to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon.
- Blue Origin's team includes five partners: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper, Astrobotic Technology and Honeybee Robotics.
- Blue Moon lander to be developed and sized to fit inside the payload fairing of Blue's under-development New Glenn rocket.
- Blue Origin plans to invest "well north of $3.4 billion" of its money into the program and will be landing an exact copy of the lander one year prior to the first crewed landing.