Blue Origin Wins , NASA Moon Lander Contract.<br />NASA's chief made the announcement <br />on May 19, Reuters reports.<br />The contract is worth about $3.4 billion.<br />Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos <br />took to Twitter to celebrate the news.<br />Elon Musk's competing SpaceX <br />won NASA's first Artemis program <br />contract, valued at $3 billion, in 2021.<br />Blue Origin and lawmakers later confronted NASA, <br />asserting that a second contract should be made <br />available to promote competition and have a backup plan.<br />In 2022, NASA announced that it would provide a second lander contract.<br />Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, said that <br />the Blue Origin "partnership will only add <br />to this golden age of human spaceflight.".<br />Blue Origin will build its Blue Moon lander with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Draper and Astrobotic.<br />American astronauts have not been on the moon since 1972, Reuters reports
