NASA awards contract to Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin for astronaut moon landers.

 In order to comply with NASA's requirements for human landing systems for repeated astronaut missions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway, a space station where personnel transfers in lunar orbit, Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and validate its Blue Moon lander. 

The US space agency chose Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Friday to create a human landing mechanism for the agency's Artemis V mission to the Moon, beating out Elon Musk-run SpaceX in some fierce competition. Blue Origin claimed it is already contributing "well north" of the $3.4 billion value of the NASA grant on its own. The project, which is being led by Blue Origin, costs more than $7 billion.

Boeing, Astrobotic, Draper, Lockheed Martin, and Honeybee Robotics are among the Blue Origin's national team partners.

I'm "honoured to be on this journey with @NASA to land astronauts on the Moon a" this time to stay. Together, we'll address the boil-off issue and advance the state of the art for all long space missions by making LOX-LH2 a storable propellant combination, Bezos tweeted.

In order to comply with NASA's requirements for human landing systems for repeated astronaut missions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway, a space station where personnel transfers in lunar orbit, Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and validate its Blue Moon lander. The contract also calls for design and development work and one unmanned lunar surface demonstration trip before a crewed demonstration on the Artemis V mission in 2029.

The firm-fixed-price contract has a $3.4 billion total award value.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson remarked, "We are excited to announce Blue Origin will build a human landing system as NASA's second provider to deliver Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface."

The organisation previously hired Musk's SpaceX to carry out a preliminary human landing system demonstration for the Artemis III mission. The ESA also instructed SpaceX to modify its design in order to satisfy the contract's specifications for environmentally friendly exploration and to demonstrate the lander on Artemis IV. NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before with Artemis, making more scientific discoveries and getting ready for manned expeditions to Mars in the future.

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