NASA selects Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the Artemis Moon Mission

For the lunar lander contract, Blue Origin, in collaboration with different aerospace corporations comparable to Boeing and Lockheed Martin, beat out a second workforce led by Dynetics, a protection firm primarily based in Huntsville, Ala.

“The sensation is completely superb,” Mr. Colouris stated. “This is step one, although. Now we have much more to do earlier than we efficiently land and produce again the astronauts.”

Designed to suit throughout the 23-foot-wide diameter of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, the Blue Moon probe will weigh greater than 45 metric tons when full of gas.

For Artemis V, the probe will first dock at Gateway, a small outpost in orbit across the moon. 4 astronauts will journey to Gateway in one other spacecraft, NASA’s Orion capsule. Then they may switch to the Blue Moon probe to remain close to the south pole of the moon for a couple of week.

After their go to to the Moon, the lander will raise off and return to the Gateway, and the Orion capsule will take all 4 astronauts again to Earth. The identical probe can be utilized for a number of duties.