SpaceX Wins Bid For NASA Moon Lander

NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to return astronauts to the moon in as few as three years, the U.S. space agency announced Friday.

SpaceX beat Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Dynetics, a defense contractor based in Huntsville, Alabama.

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, Space X’s bid “was the lowest among the offerors by a wide margin.”

Originally, NASA had planned to award each company a fraction of the $2.9 billion contact, two of which were said to build the lunar lander.

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