At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way

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From Ars Technica:
"Last Friday, NASA awarded a $3.4 billion contract to a team led by Blue Origin for the design and construction of a second Human Landing System to fly astronauts down to the Moon.

The announcement capped a furious two-year lobbying campaign by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos to obtain a coveted piece of NASA's Artemis program. NASA also notched a big win, gaining the competition with SpaceX it sought for landing services. But there is a more profound takeaway from this."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/a ... n-the-way/

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[helicon]

Go Bezos!

[Ylem]

To me, (but what do I know) this seems simpler than using Starship as a lander.

But in any case, options are good.

[Makuser]

Wow, this was an interesting read and may be the beginning of a new approach for future lunar landing. Thanks for finding and sharing this link Stephen and keep up the good news work.

[jrkirkham]

Thanks for posting this interesting article!

[messier 111]

thx .