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Boeing proposed a lander concept last year but was not selected.
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Musk’s SpaceX which is on the cusp of launching its first manned mission for NASA next month, will develop its Starship landing system to send crew and up to 100 pounds of cargo to the moon.
Dynetics, a unit of Leidos Holdings, develops human landing system, which the Boeing Lockheed joint venture, United Launch personalizza cover iphone 4s Alliance, will launch on its Vulcan system.
Boeing not picked
Cutting Boeing out of a key NASA spaceflight effort deals a blow to the aerospace giant’s space wing, which for decades has been a key International Space Station contractor and more recently a secondary provider in NASA’s efforts to launch humans to the station under its Commercial Crew Program.
NASA said it removed Boeing and another company as bidders for the lunar lander award early on in the selection process, though a specific reason was not immediately clear.
Last month, Boeing lost to competitor SpaceX in a separate competition for cargo delivery services to a lunar space station, with NASA saying in a memo “Boeing’s proposal was the highest priced and the lowest rated under the Mission Suitability factor.”
NASA in recent months has been quicker to call out Boeing for its fumbles on various agency programs, such as delays in its heavy lift rocket Space Launch System that remains years behind schedule, billions over budget and has suffered dozens of engineering setbacks.
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