Jeff Bezos' space company said it is part of a group that submitted a bid to develop a lunar lander capable of transporting NASA astronauts to the moon on future missions
. It also prompted Mr. Bezos to write a letter to NASA’s administrator, Bill Nelson. “Instead of investing in two competing lunar landers as originally intended, the agency chose to confer a multiyear, multibillion-dollar head start to SpaceX,” his letter from July of last year said.A weekly digest of tech reviews, headlines, columns and your questions answered by WSJ's Personal Tech gurus.Mr.
NASA needs landers to take astronauts from its Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit to the surface of the moon and back, where they would re-enter Orion for a trip back to Earth. The agency launched the first Artemis mission last month, and the uncrewed Orion vehicle used for that flight is expected to return to Earth next Sunday.
Blue Origin and its partners are likely to face competition to win the deal to deliver the second lander. An executive at a division ofsaid at a recent investor meeting that the company planned to submit its own bid. NASA usually makes the names of bidders available after an award and protest period, an agency spokeswoman said.
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