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...“I think we’re all trying to get to the moon first,” Hardy said....
...Humans are going back to the Moon. Right now the Moon is the target of more missions than at any time since the Apollo era....
...Nasa said in May that it had selected Blue Origin to develop a spacecraft that would send astronauts to the moon, in a contract worth $3.4bn....
...It was awarded a $3.4bn Nasa contract last month to build a lunar lander to take humans to the moon’s surface....
...Failing that, Mr Arnault — how do you fancy a trip to the Moon?...
...“It’s harder than putting a man on the moon, to create an L4 robotaxi that can operate in a dense urban environment,” he said....
...“You feel you are on the moon when in fact you’re only a two-hour drive from Los Angeles,” he says....
...Bezos’s space company, which also intends to aid Nasa with more ambitious missions to the moon and potentially beyond, is competing with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to become the leading space tourism...
...“The first company to get to net energy is going to substantially dictate what the near-term future of fusion looks like,” McNiel said, comparing it to “putting a man on the moon” for the first time....
...To get around the moon, it was another 10 years. “No one beat that time,” he said. “It’s just the time it takes to do something of that scope and magnitude.”...
...Locals can, if they care to, pay for fasting classes, moon juice and bee sting therapy....
...The announcement comes as Blue Origin reels from missing out on crucial Nasa contracts to rival SpaceX, including a $2.9bn mission to the moon now being disputed by Blue Origin in court....
...“There are those who still refuse to believe an American landed on the moon,” Citadel Securities said in a tweet....
...Following Blue Origin’s filing of a lawsuit seeking to block Nasa’s award to SpaceX for a lunar mission, Musk earlier this week told journalist Kara Swisher: “You cannot sue your way to the moon, no matter...
...Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has offered to cover $2bn in costs in exchange for being awarded a Nasa contract to help land astronauts on the moon....
...Rejecting the protest, the Government Accountability Office said the space agency “did not violate procurement law or regulation” when it handed SpaceX the $2.89bn deal to help send Americans back to the Moon...
...Despite heavy lobbying by the tech giants, South Korea’s national assembly on Tuesday passed what has been dubbed the “anti-Google bill”; it will become law once signed by President Moon Jae-in....
...Musk’s SpaceX has leapt much further ahead, flying astronauts to the International Space Station last year and shooting for a trip around the moon in 2023....
...It was beaten by SpaceX in its bid to work with Nasa in returning astronauts to the moon by 2024. The decision is being appealed....
...Google used to talk about moon shots; now other companies are doing them for real....
...Brussels Briefing explains these centre on the Gateway spaceship, intended to be a staging post for missions to the Moon and Mars. 3....
...Nasa’s 4G moon networkMaybe it’s worried about hacking or just doesn’t need the bandwidth, but Nasa is opting for a 4G mobile network for the moon as part of its Artemis programme to establish sustainable...
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@ft.com 🚀🚀🚀To the moon: Robinhood’s eleventh-hour dealmaking mission To the professional envy of many of us covering the saga, one hard-hitting...
...and astronautics at Purdue University, prolonged disruption would make it difficult to meet targets on other projects — such as Blue Origin’s collaboration with Lockheed Martin and others to land on the moon...
...Space's emerging arms race Half a century after the first moon landing, there is a surprising entry into the geopolitical tussle in space: Norway, which plans to launch two satellites equipped with defensive...
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