Alabama Stands to Be a Big Winner in NASA Moon Lander Race

By Justin Bachman
Bloomberg

NASA awarded contracts valued at almost $1 billion to companies including Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to develop a moon lander.

The research contracts represent “the crown jewel” in the Trump administration’s effort to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, Doug Loverro, the U.S. space agency’s associate administrator for human exploration, said Thursday. Dynetics, an Alabama-based subsidiary of Leidos Holdings Inc., also was a winner.

“There’s really no more exciting mission than delivering humans to other planetary bodies,” said Kim Doering, Dynetics vice president of Space Systems. “However, it’s also among the most challenging endeavors, particularly given the goal of landing on the moon in 2024. We believe Dynetics has the recipe for success.”

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