An aerospace firm SpaceX is under contract with Nasa which is worth over $4 billion however, the CEO of the California-based company Elon Musk is not the person Director Bill Nelson trusts, amid the approaching deadlines of the lunar landing mission. In 2022, Nasa awarded Elon Musk\u2019s company an additional $1.15 billion contract after the $2.9 billion awarded in 2021, as the the Washington-based agency plans to take humans under its Artemis mission. Nasa is turning toward private firms to support its lunar exploration because “they can leverage that money by working with a commercial industry and, through competition, bring those costs down,” according to Nelson’s testimony in the Senate in 2022. In a recent interview with NPR, Nasa Director Nelson revealed that the 52-year-old billionaire is a controversial person and that SpaceX would provide the rocket for Artemis 3. Responding to the tech entrepreneur\u2019s role, Nelson said: “Elon Musk … one of the most important decisions he made, as a matter of fact, is he picked a president named Gwynne Shotwell. She runs SpaceX. She is excellent. And so I have no concerns.” The total value of SpaceX\u2019s Human Landing System (HSL) is worth $4.2 billion through 2027, according to CNBC. Nasa has paid Musk\u2019s company about $1.8 billion. Nasa is targeting September 2025 for Artemis II, the first crewed mission around the Moon, and September 2026 for Artemis III, aiming to land humans near the lunar South Pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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