NASA Selects Washington's Blue Origin to Help Land Astronauts on the Moon for Artemis V Mission

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"There's a new space race going on and we're proud that Washington companies are going to help us win it by putting more Americans on the Moon and placing us on stronger footing to get to Mars. Two years ago, the Senate, the NASA Administrator, safety experts and a group of retired astronauts all knew the importance of maintaining competition in the Artemis program. Today's decision finally applies a best practice developed over many space programs: increasing competition and having a backup plan makes our astronauts safer and protects the taxpayer."

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"The American taxpayers invest too much in these space programs not to apply these lessons about the importance of resiliency and redundancy. The same lesson should be applied to the programs developed here as we approach this new project to land people back on the Moon. These are complex systems with multiple components that need to work together to the get astronauts down to the lunar surface and back safely. Building in resiliency and redundancy increases NASA's chances of successfully landing humans on the Moon and bringing them home safely."

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