Die NASA wählt die Blue Origin von Jeff Bezos für die erste von drei unbemannten Mondmissionen | Für dieses Jahr sind drei Mondlandungen geplant, um den Bau einer 20 Milliarden Dollar teuren Mondbasis vorzubereiten
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/26/nasa-jeff-bezos-blue-origin
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>Nasa selects Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions
Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base
>Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct the first.
>The revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built.
>He said the three missions planned for 2026 would be followed by “more than a dozen” more in the coming years to test systems and equipment. He said the highly successful Artemis II mission last month that sent four astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972 had been both a catalyst and incentive to advance the moon base plan.
>“People are looking up again, believing in big things again, and paying attention as America returns to the moon again, and this time to stay,” he said.
>He added, without mentioning any names, that the agency had been “having the tough conversations with those failing to meet expectations” since the Artemis splashdown on 10 April.
>“We are not jumping right into the glass dome moon base. We intend to take an iterative approach, sending a demand signal to industry for a lot of landers and rovers and tech demonstrations, and all the scientific payloads these missions can accommodate,” Isaacman said.
Good, starship HLS is a ludicrously wasteful solution. Needing dozens of launches simply to haul fuel there and back to allow it to orbit and deorbit is like using a semi truck to haul a single hot dog across the country.
Edit: I misread the article, starship HLS is still under contract sadly. I stand by my opinion of that giant boondoggle
It will never happen given today’s political economics. Sit back and watch the idiots ruin the show. Bring your own popcorn.
This the lander with the 100ft ladder?
$20bn doesn’t seem like enough to build anything meaningful. ISS was what $150bn? Is this just stage one?
I wish this was a world megaproject, I hate how everything is so political. We can accomplish a lot of things together.
I guess the moon is for sale too
Cant wait been dreaming of a moon base since i was a kid and to maybe live to see it become reality is wild!!!
3 landings this year ? , It would be a miracle to see one happen by Christmas.
Finally! Blue Origin actually getting a shot at the lunar surface instead of just filing lawsuits about it. Curious how their lander tech compares to Starship’s approach for these unmanned runs.
I’m sorry, *this year?*
Is that even possible at such apparant short notice?
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|[CLPS](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo7hngp „Last usage“)|[Commercial Lunar Payload Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services)|
|[CSA](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo7hif3 „Last usage“)|Canadian Space Agency|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
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|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo7bgjc „Last usage“)|European Space Agency|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo76tgd „Last usage“)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo76i2o „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
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|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1tp9ug5/stub/oo7lvvi „Last usage“)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
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I know the answer already, but who the fuck is paying for this just to fail.
FUck taxes
Jared needs to do something more useful than renaming previously scheduled uncrewed short duration small cargo landers „moon base missions“ and cancelling shit.