6/5/2023 0 Comments Amazon spaceship![]() And the Israeli nonprofit said it will give it a second shot. SpaceX last year announced plans to send a Japanese businessman around the moon in 2023. While a $30 million prize for private companies to send robotic probes to the moon went unclaimed last year, one of the competitors, from an Israeli private nonprofit, crashed last month as it tried to land.Ĭhina has landed a rover on the moon’s far side. It involves private companies, new countries and a NASA return mission to place astronauts back on the lunar surface by 2024. The new moon race has a lower profile than the one in the 1960s. The company had a successful launch earlier this month, reusing one of its New Shepard rockets, which barely goes to the edge of space, for a fifth time. Robert Walker, a private space consultant who is working with Blue Origin, said it plans for a 2023 launch without people.īlue Origin in 2017 revealed plans to send an unmanned, reusable rocket, capable of carrying 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms) of payload, to the moon. Blue Origin Vice President Clay Mowry said 2024 was not a concrete goal for a mission with people and said it was more up to NASA as a potential customer.įormer U.S. ![]() ![]() He spent more time talking about his dream of future generations living on orbiting space station colonies than on concrete details about Blue Origin missions.īlue Origin officials gave conflicting answers to questions about when the company would land on the moon with and without people. Astronauts and other space luminaries sat in the audience under blue-tinted lighting before Bezos unveiled the boxy ship with four long and spindly landing legs.īezos, who also owns The Washington Post, walked off the stage without providing details, including launch dates, customers and the plan for humans on his rockets. The announcement for the usually secretive space company came with all the glitz of an Apple product launch in a darkened convention ballroom bedazzled with shimmering stars on its walls. ![]() He added: “It’s time to go back to the moon. ![]()
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