{"id":23251,"date":"2026-05-27T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nasa-selects-jeff-bezoss-blue-origin-for-first-of-three-uncrewed-lunar-missions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:37:31","slug":"nasa-selects-jeff-bezoss-blue-origin-for-first-of-three-uncrewed-lunar-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nasa-selects-jeff-bezoss-blue-origin-for-first-of-three-uncrewed-lunar-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa selects Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/nasa\">Nasa<\/a> announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/24\/nasa-moon-base-cancelling-artemis\">$20bn moon base<\/a>, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/blue-origin\">Blue Origin<\/a>, ahead of Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a>, to conduct the first.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation by Nasa\u2019s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/may\/26\/nasa-jeff-bezos-blue-origin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/800db8dfad60d3f3942f6b3f1aad972df5173d56\/560_0_5578_4465\/master\/5578.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1521d923e839dd92b9341e72ce89f2a8\" title=\"Nasa selects Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions\" \/>Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<br \/>\nNasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, to conduct the first.<br \/>\nThe revelation by Nasa\u2019s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at a press conference in Washington DC marked the first detailed public explanation of how and when the moon base will be built. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/nasa-selects-jeff-bezoss-blue-origin-for-first-of-three-uncrewed-lunar-missions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nasa selects Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}