NASA wants a second moon lander for the Artemis astronauts, in addition to SpaceX's Starship

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NASA wants a second moon lander for the Artemis astronauts, in addition to SpaceX's Starship.

NASA announced on March 23 that it will support the development of a second lander to transport astronauts to and from the lunar surface, providing competition for the later "sustainable" phase of the Artemis program with SpaceX.
The agency announced that it will soon launch a competition for Sustaining Lunar Development, which will fund work on a second lander in addition to the existing Human Landing System award given to SpaceX in April 2021. The award will include both an unscrewed demonstration landing and a crewed landing.
A second lander could cost significantly more than the $2.9 billion awarded to SpaceX under HLS Option A. This new strategy, however, is not entirely novel. NASA originally planned to choose multiple private crewed landers for Artemis in order to have redundancy and to drive the teams building the vehicles through competition.

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Elon: so Jeff is suing you, I was thinking you buy it from spacex?

deficientfaith
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Can't wait to star in the next WallE movie!

thedailybeaker
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Wanting & having are like building prototypes vs production. The latter not so easy!

Crunch_dGH
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Elon musk. Okay I'll build you another lunar lander.
NASA. No the idea is to have competition we want somebody else to build it.
Elon musk. Okay but it's going to take a long time if you're going to Jeff bezos and it's going to cost twice as much.

gokuooo
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I don't think they wanted a second one they were forced to accept another lander that is the old style

devos
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Smart move. Starship is a poor choice for a return manned mission, way too big. Should be used for one-way freight missions, with some other small lander to take humans.

lengould
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Waste of money. Fix earth first. We will all live in tents soon!

CYBERSiMULACRA
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We have Started to Ruin our own planet. Let’s go someplace else and litter leave in our space debris behind. Maybe we should consider using that money to clean up our own planet.

richarddavenport
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Solar powered space junk collector 💰🤑 logical 🐜💥

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