{"id":106315,"date":"2020-05-01T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=106315"},"modified":"2020-05-01T05:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:21:44","slug":"nasa-picks-who-will-land-people-on-the-moon-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasa-picks-who-will-land-people-on-the-moon-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"NASA picks who will land people on the Moon\u2026 sort of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Dynetics Human Lander system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the three companies NASA announced today will land the next NASA astronauts on the Moon. NASA awarded three firm-fixed-price, milestone-based contracts for the human landing system awards under the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nextstep\/humanlander2\">Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2<\/a>. The total combined value for all awarded contracts is $967 million for the 10-month base period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> NASA downselected from the five companies in the running to only three. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The contenders for the Moon mission contract.<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA released the Human Landing System (HLS) solicitation on October 25, 2019. Five companies submitted proposals by the required due date of November 5, 2019. Listed below in alphabetical order: <\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nasa-picks-who-will-land-people-on-the-moon-sort-of\">Continue reading \u201cNASA picks who will land people on the Moon\u2026 sort of\u2026\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the three companies NASA announced today will land the next NASA astronauts on the Moon. NASA awarded three firm-fixed-price, milestone-based contracts for the human landing system\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1528,2019,8,1514],"tags":[2539,742,3782,3025,457],"class_list":["post-106315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disruptive-technology","category-elon-musk","category-space","category-space-travel","tag-blue-origin","tag-boeing","tag-dynetics","tag-moon-landing","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106364,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106315\/revisions\/106364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}