Jeff Bezos' Blue Moon: Here's what we know so far about Blue Origin's new lunar lander - NBCNewsMACH
Half a century after humans first set foot on the lunar surface, the world’s richest man has revealed a huge new lunar lander that he says will return humanity to the moon by 2024.
Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon and founder of the spaceflight company Blue Origin, unveiled the latter company’sThe Blue Moon lander resembles a bigger, boxier cousin of the lunar modules used during NASA's Apollo program.The four-legged lander could carry two to four passengers and has an upper deck designed to hold different types of cargo. Its liquid hydrogen-powered rocket engine generates 10,000 pounds of thrust, according to the company.
“I was sure that those landing pads were too small,” he said. “And I asked about that, and the answer is these are not too small. The ones on the lunar Apollo lander are too big because we were very worried about how soft the lunar surface was.”
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