has awarded Amazon billionaire and his private rocket firm a $3.4 billion contract to take astronauts back to the moon, the US space agency's exploration chief Jim Free said Friday. Bezos' is the second company to score a lunar mission project as part of NASA's Artemis program, following 's SpaceX, which won $3 billion in 2021 to put humans back on the moon for the first time since 1972.According to Blue Origin's lunar lander head John Couluris, Blue Origin privately contributed 'well north' of the contract's $3.4 billion payout.
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