If you have been following the developments for NASA’s upcoming moon missions dubbed Artemis, you might know that the American Space organization selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to design and build the lunar landers for astronauts last year. SpaceX was selected from three other choices that were available. Now, NASA has opened the spot to select another company in addition to SpaceX for the lunar landers. Let’s take a look at the details.
After unveiling the new spacesuits for the Artemis mission in 2019, NASA selected three space companies, including SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, and a defense supplier named Dynetics, to design and build lunar landers for its Artemis missions in 2020. Last year, the space agency confirmed that SpaceX will receive the contract of designing and building the human landing systems (HLS) for the lunar missions.
Much like SpaceX’s contract, the second company would also receive financing from NASA for two landings. One would be without astronauts and this will demonstrate the abilities of the spacecraft, and the other one would be a mission with the astronauts.
