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NASA has asked private industry to submit proposals for crewed moon landers for its Artemis program. The agency has already tapped SpaceX's Starship as the first Artemis lander.
PARIS — NASA has released a request for proposals for a second human lunar lander for the Artemis program to join the Starship lander under development by SpaceX.
Proposals for the Moon lander are due on November 15. We’re fully expecting Blue Origin to submit a proposal, but at a previously stated price of $5.99 billion, NASA may have to balk.
NASA already has SpaceX developing a lander to carry astronauts to the moon's surface, ... and this week it shared an official solicitation inviting proposals.
A new round of proposals will see private companies develop new lunar landers. Here's what that means for NASA's Artemis 3, and "beyond." ...
After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will join NASA’s lunar lander program — competing against Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts to the ...
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor ...
The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers.
The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket. transcript Onboard a SpaceX ...