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...

Será la primera misión de un aterrizador lunar financiada de forma privada en la historia.

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace are awarded with hundreds of millions of dollars in NASA contracts for the first phase of its moon base…

May 26 : NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send robotic landers, rovers and drones to support the upcoming lunar exploration…

Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace have been awarded hundreds of millions in contracts for the vehicles.

An artist’s rendering of a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 1 lunar lander deploying Astrolab’s Crewed Lunar Vehicle (CLV-1) on the surface of the Moon. Graphic: Astrolab

Lunar Outpost, Astrolab, Firefly Aerospace – so heißen die Firmen, die für Hunderte Millionen Dollar Mondfahrzeuge und weitere Technologie bauen sollen. Auch Jeff Bezos' Bulke…

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…

NASA awarded contracts to Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost, and Firefly Aerospace to build early infrastructure for a moon base.