I saw this yesterday on Space.com – Protests, trolling and more: Drama swirls around NASA’s next moon lander for astronauts – . Much longer article, but here’s what I considered relevant. It has some photos.
By Mike Wall May 28, 2021
The United States’ next moonshot is shaping up to be a contentious affair.
In mid-April, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to finish development of its Starship vehicle and fly two missions with it to the lunar surface for the agency’s Artemis program. If all goes according to plan, the second of those missions will put two astronauts down near the lunar south pole in the mid-2020s — the first crewed moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-moon-lander-spacex-blue-origin-protests
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