
News Summary
- Blue Origin has unveiled a mock up of the Blue Moon lander it says will be ready to fly to the Moon within the next three years.
- Jeff Bezos the billionaire founder of Blue Origin recently showed off the low fidelity mock up to NASA officials at the company s engine production facility in Huntsville Alabama.
- The company is developing the Mark as a predecessor to the larger Mark lander which will ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface under contract to NASA.
- NASA selected Blue Origin as its second human rated lunar lander contractor in May alongside SpaceX.
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