“It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay”
The billionaire unveiled his unmanned lunar lander Blue Moon and spoke of his hopes to send people to the moon by 2024.
Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon, reports SKY News.
The Amazon tycoon said his space company Blue Origin will land an unmanned robotic ship about the size of a house.
Known as Blue Moon, the lunar lander is capable of carrying four rovers and uses a newly designed rocket engine.
Mr Bezos told an audience in Washington DC that his space firm could also help NASA meet its target to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024.
He said: “We can help meet that timeline but only because we started three years ago”.
“It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay.”
The billionaire unveiled a model of one of Blue Moon’s proposed rovers, which was roughly the size of a golf cart, and presented a new rocket engine called BE-7 which can blast 10,000lbs of thrust.
Unveiling his moon landing plan, he spoke of the importance of future human colonisation of space and mentioned two important issues: reducing launch costs and using resources already in space.
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