Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin today shared plans for a trip to the moon and its Blue Moon lunar module.
Blue Origin today unveiled its Blue Moon lunar lander and shared plans to go to the moon in the years ahead. The company is owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who shared the news at a press conference held today before a select audience in Washington D. C.
As Blue Origin previously announced, its New Shepard rocket will make its first manned flight later this year.
Humans haven’t returned to the surface of the moon since the end of NASA’s Apollo mission in 1972, but NASA is expected to share details about its plan to return to the moon by 2024 in the weeks ahead.
“We can help meet that timeline but only because we started three years ago. It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay,” Bezos said today in response to a push by Vice President Mike Pence for NASA to return to the moon’s surface, according to Reuters.
