Blue Origin in the Hunt for NASA Lunar Landing Contract
Blue Origin has formed a team of aerospace heavyweights to bid for a new NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon.
“The National Team of Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics is competing for a NASA Sustaining Lunar Development contract to develop a human landing system for the Artemis program. In partnership with NASA, this team will achieve sustained presence on the Moon,” the company said on its website.
NASA awarded a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX last year for the initial crewed landings at the lunar south pole. Elon Musk’s company will use a variation of its Starship vehicle. Blue Origin’s National Team and Dynetics were unsuccessful bidders for that contract.
NASA, which wants redundancy in its Artemis lunar program, opened up bidding for a new round of landings. Proposals were due to NASA on Tuesday. The space agency is expected to make a decision next June.
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Will be interesting to see what was bid. The bar has been set extremely high.
Senator Cantwell will be pleased.
Meanwhile, I wonder who else bid (if there was anyone left — Blue Origin sucked up the two potentially biggest competitors)
Dynetics has also bid.
in case spaceX runs aground…we need an alternate
It’s always good to have a plan B…as long as it’s not cost plus.