A team led by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has won a coveted NASA contract to build a spacecraft to send astronauts to and from the moon’s surface, NASA’s chief has announced, capping a high-stakes contest.
NASA’s decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX $US3 billion ($4.5 billion) in 2021 to land astronauts on the moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972.
