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NASA announces four new lunar lander missions worth nearly $600 million to advance Moon Base science

Each of the four landers for the $30 billion Moon Base will be an updated version of designs that have already flown.
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'We still don't have a lander': NASA's former chief expresses concerns about Artemis architecture

"The genius of Apollo was its simplicity." ...

Building NASA's moon base starts with these lunar lander missions

NASA will pay another $600 million to 3 aerospace companies for lunar lander missions in 2028. Here's how the move paves the ...
SpaceNews

ispace to send larger payloads to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship

Japanese lunar exploration company ispace is buying space on a future Starship lunar lander mission to deliver larger ...
SpaceNews

Blue Origin continues work on lunar landers during recovery from New Glenn explosion

Blue Origin is continuing to develop its Blue Moon lunar landers while recovering from the New Glenn pad explosion more than ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA Selects Three Companies To Land Four New Missions on the Moon

NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive ...
Entrepreneur

NASA Awards SpaceX, Blue Origin, and 3 Other Companies $146 Million In Contracts to Make Moon Lander Designs

NASA announced on Tuesday that it had awarded five US companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, a total of $146 million in contracts to develop moon-lander designs. The ...

Firefly Aerospace Awarded $144 Million NASA CLPS Contract for Accelerated Blue Ghost Lunar Mission

Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY), a market leading space and defense technology company, today announced a $144 million NASA ...
GovCon Wire

5 Companies to Work on Lunar Lander Design Concepts Under $146M in NASA Contracts

NASA has awarded $146 million in contracts to five companies to develop lunar lander design concepts, perform risk reduction activities and offer feedback to inform requirements for a future ...
USA Today

Here's a look at all the lunar lander missions planned for 2026

Four U.S. companies are targeting lunar landings in 2026, including Astrobotic, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines. The missions are part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...