WASHINGTON – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has chosen Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to build a lander that will return humans to the Moon this decade.
This vehicle will carry the next man and the first woman down to the lunar surface under the space agency’s Artemis program.
Another goal is to land the first person of color on the Moon.
The lander is based on SpaceX’s Starship craft, which is being tested at a site in southern Texas.
SpaceX was competing against a joint bid from traditional aerospace giants and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as Alabama-based Dynetics. The total value of the contract is $2.89 billion.(BBC)
