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#Moon: More contracts for landers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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#Moon: More contracts for landers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/firefly-wins-its-second-nasa-contract-to-land-payloads-on-the-moon/

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We're going to start with NASA to put your blue ghost lunar land on the new side of the moon and bring 10 payloads to the surface.

1:08.0

NASA payloads to the surface, science instruments.

1:12.0

But this past week, it won a second NASA contract for $112 million to build a second blue ghost lunar land to bring three instruments to the moon.

1:23.0

So one would be an orbit and two would be on the ground on the far side of the moon, not on the near side.

1:30.0

What's important about this is that once again, NASA is not the instructor or builder.

1:36.0

It is hiring private companies to provide the land and firefly now has two contracts to do such a thing.

1:43.0

The first contract is post-aland in 24 and this new contract is post-aland in 26.

1:51.0

It wouldn't be surprising that they are at the lays in that that's not been unusual.

1:56.0

But nonetheless, once again, NASA is aiming at private companies to do this.

2:01.0

And what the result of that is that instead of getting one land on the moon or over on the moon maybe every decade,

2:08.0

NASA has got like dozens of contracts right now for these lunar landers.

2:13.0

And not all of them will fly and not all of them will succeed, but they're going to have lots and they'll get that much more bang for the buck in the long run.

2:21.0

The way technology is supposed to work, startups of most don't work, a few do, and then we learn.

2:28.0

Now we go to NASA learning. Now Bob, I don't track this that carefully, so help me.

2:34.0

NASA is making a transition on the ISS, making a transition to the future when it may very well be a commercial enterprise and no longer a primary holder for Russia and the US and its allies of scientific experiments.

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