Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos on Thursday unveiled Blue Moon, a lander that he says will journey to the lunar surface by 2024. A larger version of the lander will be able to carry astronauts, deliver payloads, deploy rovers, and act as a launch platform for moon-orbiting satellites.
Earth’s nearest neighbor has been getting a whole lot of attention just lately, and now Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos has joined the club with the grand unveiling on Thursday afternoon of the Blue Moon lunar lander.
At a Washington Convention Center event less than a mile from a White House whose occupants also recently expressed a strong desire to return to the moon, Bezos pulled the wraps off a mock-up of Blue Moon, a spacecraft that he said will be able to land on the lunar surface by 2024.
Bezos said that a larger version of the lander will be able to carry astronauts to the moon, deliver payloads to the surface, and deploy as many as four rovers.
