NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landing System for Artemis Program
April 30 2020 - 2:20PM
Dow Jones News
By Stephen Nakrosis
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday
it selected three U.S. companies to design and develop a human
landing system for the Artemis program, which is intended to land
the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by
2024.
NASA said Blue Origin, Dynetics and Space Exploration
Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, were selected for the program.
The Blue Origin team includes Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman,
and Draper Labs, NASA said, adding Dynetics is a Leidos
company.
The human landing system awards are firm-fixed price,
milestone-based contracts with a total combined of $967 million for
a 10-month base period, NASA said.
NASA said its commercial partners will refine their lander
concepts through February 2021, when the contract base period
ends.
"During that time, the agency will evaluate which of the
contractors will perform initial demonstration missions," NASA
said, adding it will "later select firms for development and
maturation of sustainable lander systems followed by sustainable
demonstration missions."
Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 30, 2020 14:05 ET (18:05 GMT)
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