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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-05-13·LATEST ACTION2026-06-01·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80MSFC20C0034_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

WORK REQUIRED FOR THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURE, TEST, LAUNCH, DEMONSTRATION, AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT OF THE HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM (HLS) INTEGRATED LANDER.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

Latest obligation on SpaceX's Human Landing System contract, which began in 2020, to design, develop, manufacture, test, and launch the integrated lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program.

Sub-sectors
nasa-lunar-landerhuman-spaceflightartemis-program
Why this matters

The HLS is critical to NASA's goal of returning humans to the Moon by the late 2020s; this 2026 obligation sustains the multi-year development and demonstration effort.

Supply-chain signal

SpaceX's HLS work drives demand across aerospace suppliers, avionics integrators, propulsion systems, and advanced manufacturing for lunar-capable hardware.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. lunar landing capability is a strategic counterweight to China's advancing Moon exploration program and demonstrates American leadership in human spaceflight.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.003197.

Period of performance
Start
2020-05-13
End
2027-12-06
Status
activein 524 days
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