{"id":150342,"date":"2022-11-16T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nasa-awards-spacex-1-15-billion-contract-for-second-artemis-lander-mission"},"modified":"2022-11-16T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T08:22:19","slug":"nasa-awards-spacex-1-15-billion-contract-for-second-artemis-lander-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nasa-awards-spacex-1-15-billion-contract-for-second-artemis-lander-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA awards SpaceX $1.15 billion contract for second Artemis lander mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-awards-spacex-1-15-billion-contract-for-second-artemis-lander-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starship is getting very close to becoming real. Starship just did a 14 engine static fire which is nearly as powerful as the Saturn V that landed people on the moon. A 33 engine static fire should happen within a month.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, NASA just signed up Starship for a third trip to the moon. They have now signed up for one cargo and two crew missions to the moon for a total of over $4 billion. Other customers have signed up with Starship as well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. \u2014 NASA has awarded SpaceX a $1.15 billion contract to develop an upgraded version of its Starship lunar lander and fly a second crewed mission.<\/p>\n<p>NASA announced Nov. 15 it completed a contract modification for what is formally known as Option B of its Human Landing System (HLS) contract with SpaceX. Option B covers upgrades to the Starship lander originally selected for HLS by NASA in April 2021 for $2.9 billion. The option also includes a second crewed demonstration landing mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinuing our collaborative efforts with SpaceX through Option B furthers our resilient plans for regular crewed transportation to the lunar surface and establishing a long-term human presence under Artemis,\u201d Lisa Watson-Morgan, NASA HLS program manager, said in a statement. \u201cThis critical work will help us focus on the development of sustainable, service-based lunar landers anchored to NASA\u2019s requirements for regularly recurring missions to the lunar surface.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship is getting very close to becoming real. Starship just did a 14 engine static fire which is nearly as powerful as the Saturn V that landed people on the moon. A 33 engine static fire should happen within a month. In addition, NASA just signed up Starship for a third trip to the moon. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150342","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}