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Building a moon base has been atop NASA’s to-do list. The agency doled out new contracts to help inform how to set up the lunar outpost. Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic won awards to ferry an identical set of payloads to the lunar surface by the end of 2028.
NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send robotic landers, rovers and drones to support the upcoming lunar exploration missions. The U.S. space agency said on Tuesday it had awarded Astrolab $219 million and Lunar Outpost $220 million to build and deliver lunar terrain vehicles. Blue Origin was awarded a $188 million contract to deliver the rovers to the moon's surface using its uncrewed cargo lunar lander, Mark 1.
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