Today, Nasa announced Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for Artemis V Lunar mission, and it could be a bad choice for Nasa to believe in a failure and SpaceX‘s filter copy.
Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for astronaut missions. The contract also includes on demo launch to prove that Blue Origin can send astronauts to Moon.
Overall it’s a $3.4 billion contract to a company that has not launched a single rocket in space since last year.
“Today we are excited to announce Blue Origin will build a human landing system as NASA’s second provider to deliver Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
It’s funny that Nasa has chosen Blue Origin for the later phase of the Lunar discovery and put SpaceX into the initial slot with Artemis IV.
Jeff Bezos:
Blue Origin founder has some words to say “Honored to be on this journey with @NASA to land astronauts on the Moon — this time to stay.”
Blue Origin will be shouldered with a lot of big names in the aviation industry – Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, Astrobotic, and Honeybee Robotics. All of these are prime people who lost in a race against SpaceX.
Failure in landing:
But you can’t run the reality, Blue Origin is a work of fiction and Jeff Bezos invented this firm by copying Elon Musk. So, it can just compete with SpaceX but landed nowhere near.
It was September 2022 when Blue Origin conducted a payload mission and landed badly on the ground with booster failure. It’s hard to tell how Blue Origin collected this new contract but Blue Origin has already decided to take help from big names to ‘barely’ land a rover on Moon.
