{"id":11245,"date":"2021-06-10T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/musks-spacex-beats-out-bezos-and-blue-origin-for-nasa-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:48:58","slug":"musks-spacex-beats-out-bezos-and-blue-origin-for-nasa-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/musks-spacex-beats-out-bezos-and-blue-origin-for-nasa-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s SpaceX Beats Out Bezos And Blue Origin For NASA Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline NASA picked Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX as the sole company to build spacecraft that will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since the early 1970s, the space agency announced Friday, dashing the hopes of Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin, as Musk collects his latest and among most significant victories in the billionaire space race. SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on Dec. &#8230; [+] 1, 2020 in Berlin. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool\/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Facts NASA announced during a media briefing Friday SpaceX had won the $2.9 billion contract to build spacecraft for the Artemis program, with the goal of having humans back on the Moon by 2024. The decision cuts out Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin and Alabama-based Dynetics, which were companies that had been working with NASA and SpaceX during Artemis&#8217; initial phase. 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