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Title: NASA Wants SpaceX and Blue Origin To Deliver Cargo To the Moon

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After asking both SpaceX
and Blue Origin to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions, NASA has
announced plans to use those landers to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon.
The agency wants Elon Musk's SpaceX to use its Starship cargo lander to
deliver a pressurized rover to the Moon "no earlier" than 2032, while Jeff
Bezos' Blue Origin will be tasked with delivering a lunar surface habitat no
sooner than 2033. Both launches will support NASA's Artemis missions, which
aim to bring humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.
Both companies are developing human landing systems for Artemis missions --
SpaceX for Artemis III and Blue Origin for Artemis V. NASA later asked both
companies to develop cargo-hauling variants of those landers, capable of
carrying 26,000 to 33,000 pounds of equipment and other materials to the
Moon. NASA says it will issue proposals to SpaceX and Blue Origin at the
beginning of next year.

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