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NASA announces that Bezos’s Blue Origin will build moon lander

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Origin's space exploration lunar lander rocket during an event in May 2019 [File: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]

The United States federal space agency NASA has selected Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin to construct a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the surface of the moon, winning a contract valued at about $3.4bn.

In a news release on Friday, NASA said that the company would design, test and develop a “lander” under the Artemis programme, the agency’s lunar exploration initiative.

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