America’s next president takes office in three weeks and two days. What changes should he make to America’s space program? An opinion writer at Bloomberg tackles the question: Donald Trump badly wanted to be the president who sent Americans back to the moon. Instead, his administration has presided over Artemis, a lunar-landing program plagued by “uncertain plans, unproven cost assumptions, and…
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NASA goes private for 1st astronaut lunar landers in decades
NASA is turning to private industry for the first lunar landers for astronauts in a half-century, with three competing, quite contrasting versions. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-05-nasa-private-1st-astronaut-lunar.html…
Musk, Bezos win NASA contracts for Moon lander
NASA on Thursday awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three space companies including those owned by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to develop lunar landers as the United States seeks to return human beings to the Moon. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-musk-bezos-nasa-moon-lander.html…
NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring humans to the moon
NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242413-nasa-has-selected-three-lunar-landers-to-bring-humans-to-the-moon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…