Blue Origin will develop the human landing system that lowers astronauts to the moon for NASA's Artemis V mission.
Artemis III will place the first woman and person of color on the moon, potentially in 2025. But NASA's Orion capsule isn't designed to land on the lunar surface. Its astronauts must transfer into another vehicle for this part of the mission, which prompted NASA to work with commercial companies to develop human landing systems.
"These are public-private partnerships," Nelson said."It's the new way that we go to the moon. It helps NASA share the risk —NASA generally likes to have two companies providing hardware, and officials wanted to select two human landing systems in 2021. But they said Congress didn't allocate enough money.
Blue Origin, based in Kent, Wash., is developing its Blue Moon lander with Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics. This team is collectively called the National Team.
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