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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin secures NASA contract for lunar lander project.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin secures NASA contract for lunar lander project.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has been awarded a contract by NASA to build a landing craft to take a crew down to the lunar surface later this decade. The company will receive just over $3.4bn from NASA as part of the contract and will be spending "well north of $3.4bn" of its own money on the project. Blue Origin's 16m-tall, 45-tonne vehicle is called "Blue Moon" and will be used on the Artemis V mission, set to occur no earlier than 2029. SpaceX has also been asked to put down two astronauts at the Moon's south pole in late 2025 or 2026, and then again in 2028.

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