Wccftech By Ramish Zafar 5/6/2020
At the end of last week, NASA confirmed that three companies would receive government funding to develop landing systems for astronauts. These systems will form the second stage of the United States government's plan of expanding human presence beyond earth, and they will work through NASA's plans to use heavy-lift launch vehicles to propel payloads beyond low earth orbit.
For the landing systems contract, NASA received proposals from five companies, and after evaluation, it eliminated two from this list. Subsequently, the agency's source selection authority for the human landing systems decided to award three contracts collectively worth $967 million to Dynetics, Blue Origin and SpaceX. As a result, the companies will develop landing systems ready for demonstration four years from now in 2024.
In response to NASA's request of developing a landing vehicle, Boeing, Blue Origin, Dynetcis, SpaceX and Vivace corporation submitted their proposals last year. The agency had initially awarded 11 different contracts to companies for conducting research on the landing system, and the three chosen by NASA will be responsible for delivering astronauts to the lunar surface.
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