Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos: The US space agency NASA has aimed to land a woman and a man on the moon by 2024 under the ‘Artemis mission’. NASA has selected three companies to design and build a lander that takes the spacecraft to the lunar surface. NASA has chosen space company, Space X, Blue Origin and Dynamics to build human landing systems on the moon.
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Two of these companies are owned by prominent billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. These three companies will design and develop a human landing system for NASA’s mission. Around Rs 16,405 crore will be paid to the three companies for the initial design development work in 10 months.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein said that with this contract the US is moving towards the final step of landing its astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024. For the first time we will see a woman stepping on the moon’s surface. He said that this is the first time since the Apollo era of 1972 that NASA has sufficient funds for human landing systems and now we have agreements with several companies to work for ‘Artemis’.
Bridgestone said the maximum amount would be given to Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin at Rs 7253 crore. This amount is four times more than the amount of Rs 1013 crore received by Elon Musk’s Space X company. Dynamics will get around Rs 1898 crore.
