Elon Musk’s NASA chief ally says SpaceX rival Blue Origin might be picked for US lunar project Artemis

NASA’s new boss Jared Isaacman walked into the job on Thursday and wasted no time shaking both SpaceX and Blue Origin, saying the agency will choose the company that builds a working moon lander first. He said the faster team will take Americans back to the lunar surface for the first time in more than fifty years. He made the point during a Bloomberg TV interview on his first day, right after meeting President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. He said both companies understood the rule clearly and that the one that finishes first will carry US astronauts under the Artemis program. Isaacman juggling SpaceX, Blue Origin and delays at NASA SpaceX and Blue Origin already have contracts with NASA to develop their lunar landers. SpaceX holds more than $4 billion in NASA deals to move astronauts to the moon using its Starship spacecraft. That plan, at least for...

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