The rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has officially reached the Moon. NASA announced on Tuesday that it had selected Bezos’s Blue Origin to carry out the first in a planned series of three uncrewed lunar missions aimed at preparing for a future Moon base, handing the company a contract worth about $230M.

NASA has selected Blue Origin to play a major role in the agency’s expanding Moon Base initiative, which will involve three launches in a short time-frame.

La nave elegida para la primera misi�n es el m�dulo de aterrizaje Blue Origin Mark One Endurance, dise�ado por la empresa espacial de Jeff Bezos, el fundador de Amazon, seg�n...