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Humans have not traveled beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo program ended in 1972. NASA has officially been trying to change that since 2004 when President George W. Bush announced what became the agency’s back-to-the-Moon Constellation program.
In 2010, the Obama administration canceled Constellation, but two key pieces of the program survived: the Orion crew capsule and a rocket that became what is now the Space Launch System, or SLS. Both vehicles are being developed using classic “cost-plus” contracting, where NASA pays for the full cost of development, even if costs rise far above initial estimates.
NASA’s Artemis program will use the SLS to blast astronauts to lunar orbit aboard Orion, where they will meet up with a previously-emplaced lunar lander to travel to the surface and back.
It is worth noting that rather than building a lunar lander in-house the way it does with SLS and Orion, NASA opted to pay space companies a fixed price to build their own lunar landers, which the companies will own.
And with little funds to go on and the prospect of seeing the Moon landings drag out for many more years, the agency finally decided to pick the cheapest—and most likely to succeed—option: SpaceX.
NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company a $2.9 billion contract for the development of its Starship super-rocket as a lunar landing system for astronauts in the Artemis III mission, slated to launch in 2025.
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