NASA's Lunar Lander Announcement in 7 Minutes

NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon for the first time in history.

The human landing system awards under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Appendix H Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) are firm-fixed-price, milestone-based contracts. The total combined value for all awarded contracts is $967 million for the 10-month base period.

The following companies were selected to design and build human landing systems:

Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, is developing the Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) – a three-stage lander to be launched on its own New Glenn Rocket System and ULA Vulcan launch system.
Dynetics (a Leidos company) of Huntsville, Alabama, is developing the Dynetics Human Landing System (DHLS) – a single structure providing the ascent and descent capabilities that will launch on the ULA Vulcan launch system.
SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, is developing the Starship – a fully integrated lander that will use the SpaceX Super Heavy rocket.

[entity]

Glad to see those people honoring the sound technology of the first moon landing.

[sandwichtube]

The next dune buggy will be a cyber truck.

[raedwulf]

NASA- Still using 1960s audio technology: We're cutting edge!

[Skukkix]

its incredible that we talk about moonlandings with sound quality of the last century

[markjmaxwell]

At least they are going
My money is on Space X

[Jordanpgates]

The audio was so distorted that I couldn't watch the whole video.

[animavideography]

2024?? Best news I've heard since Corona struck. I'm hoping social distancing does not significantly delay implementation of the winner. I was 6 when Apollo 11 landed & it was 4am hete in Ireland & in their complete lack lack of insight/wisdom/knowledge that I would grow up to be a total space nerd I was not woken to witness it. It still hurts. But I'll be there hopefully aged 62 now in front of my 65" 4K TV with ose Surrkund System to witness the first woman walk in the moon probably wearing an 8K go pro...way to go! Overcompensaring, it'll be like looking out the window of a module on the surface st them hopefully. Excellent! This news really cheers me up!

[danielwhyatt]

I appreciate the audio information she has given us but I do wish that it wasn’t so harsh on the ears. There’s only so much before that grating from the audio can get to you.

[joeybabybaby]

Great video, but could you have run the NASA audio through some sort of audio clarifying software?

[HiroNguy]

So, what I heard is that NASA just ordered a double cheeseburger and large orange drink.

[planetmuskvlog]

Build a landing pad for Starship and we’re all set. I like the idea of building a permanent spelunking tether in which people can get pulled down to the Moon’s surface without a landing craft.

[OdeeOz]

Great coverage, mate! 👏👌👍 I bet Tory has Lunar Lander Envy now. 😂😂🤣

[mbj__]

My bet is on Starship / SuperHeavy to initially take on the role as a heavy transportation vehicle to and from lunar orbit carrying other landers on board. One or two Starships clould very well do one way trips as well and be left on the Surface as habitat modules. But unless a fairly dust free landing pad is created early on on the moon the Starship option is likely to be causing massive problems with dust/ particle. The massive thrust of Starship could perhaps even cause dust and particles to get launched into lunar orbit causing issues also for orbiters. It is just massive and the lunar regolith is Sharp and gravity low...

[teamski]

I think SpaceX has the edge here with a system that is fully scalable and capable of installing infrastructure from the get-go. Why spend more trying to develop an initial landing platform and then have to reinvent the wheel to get payloads on the surface.

[kaydesign]

Amazing that the iconic rocket from the comic Tintin looks like SpaceX system. Who ever knew! (Mind blown)

[utsubo]

7:14 Sure!
Thanks 👍🤓🚀💨✨
Your channel is very interesting.

[nicholasmills]

spacex solution with the single stage is too heavy for the rocket. Its a non starter in my opinion. Seems strange to allow that potential unstable lander on to the moon. the crane down is the most rediculous idea.

[blacksunna]

Thank you very much! I enjoy your show.

[land_gamerxd]

What's with starship with no fins?

[Loofrewop]

Possibly Starship is the "end goal", due to cargo capacity and reusability, and they might use one of the others as an alternative (most likely blue origin) in the meantime (if they do, indeed, need all the startship cargo capacity). But as presented, there is one major flaw with Starship, which is the accessability.
It's too risky to depend on systems in order to get your crew on and off the ship. It's a risk they can't afford.
Imagine if, for some reason, the lifting system stops working? Or an astronaut gets injured/some emergency, and they need to get back to the ship.

Of course, I'm saying that based on the picture and they might have all that sorted out, and/or you may argue that "It will be a rocket carrying this thing, taking off from earth and landing on the moon... if you're concerned about something not working properly, you wouldn't even leave earth"