NASA Bets Big On 3 Private Firms To Return Humans To The Moon By 2028
TL;DR
NASA awarded $590 million in lunar lander contracts to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines as part of the Artemis program, aiming for a crewed Moon landing at the lunar south pole by 2028. The move underscores a growing commercial lunar economy and has geopolitical heft in the U.S.–China space rivalry, with SpaceX and related space ETFs drawing investor attention alongside these private landers.
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