SpaceX wins NASA moon lander contract

Updated April 17 2021 - 7:44am, first published 7:42am
NASA has awarded SpaceX and Elon Musk a contract to send a crew to the moon by 2024.
NASA has awarded SpaceX and Elon Musk a contract to send a crew to the moon by 2024.

NASA has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private space company SpaceX a $US2.9 billion ($A3.7 billion) contract to build a spacecraft to take astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics Inc.

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