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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to BLUE ORIGIN MANUFACTURING, LLC

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2023 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2023-05-18·LATEST ACTION2026-06-01·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_80MSFC23CA014_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

RAPID DDT&E AND DEMONSTRATION OF S SUSTAINABLE HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM INTEGRATED LANDER.

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

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest obligation on Blue Origin's 2023 lunar lander development contract to advance sustainable human landing system technology.

Sub-sectors
lunar-lander-developmenthuman-spaceflightddt&e-contract
Why this matters

Blue Origin's lander is critical to NASA's Artemis program for returning humans to the Moon; this 3-year-old contract remains central to U.S. lunar exploration strategy.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains aerospace manufacturing and advanced propulsion supply chains supporting commercial lunar infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. lunar landing capability directly counters China's accelerating Moon exploration program and resource-access ambitions.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002980.

Period of performance
Start
2023-05-18
End
2029-01-23
Status
activein 938 days
Sources

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