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    SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion Contract For Next Lunar Lander

    The company beat out two others in its bid to develop a lunar lander that will bring Americans back to the moon in the coming years.
    by Matthew S. Schwartz Apr 17, 2021 2 minutes
    Illustration of SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the moon under the Artemis program.

    NASA will pay Elon Musk's SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon.

    SpaceX was one of three companies to develop technology for NASA's Human Landing System program. On Friday NASA SpaceX's "Starship" design had

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