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posted by chromas on Friday October 05 2018, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-gorgotron-approaches dept.

Jeff Bezos Is Planning to Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' to the Moon

Blue Origin, described by Bezos as "the most important work I'm doing," signed a letter of intent with German aerospace companies OHB Space Systems and Security and MT Aerospace at the 69th annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Germany on Tuesday. The OHB SE dubbed the lunar project the "Blue Moon" mission in a press release.

It's not clear exactly what cargo the Blue Moon mission would transport, but it likely includes infrastructure designed to start private business on the Moon: The IAC also detailed the launch of the "Moon Race," a competition between Blue Origin, Airbus Air and Space, and other space agencies around the world to develop technology that will bring companies around the world to the Moon.

According to a press release, the competition could involve manufacturing products and technology, manufacturing energy sources for humans to survive, getting access to water and sustaining biological life, such as plant or agricultural lifeā€”all on the Moon.

Also at Space.com.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 05 2018, @04:48AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday October 05 2018, @04:48AM (#744507) Homepage Journal

    Our Space industry was forgotten for a long time. The rockets and everything else. Well, it's forgotten no more. We are going to have the Space Force. That one's coming in 2020. We couldn't get the money for this year, you'd be amazed how hard it is to get the money from Congress. That's like a full-time job. But trust me, we'll get it for 2020. Lot of money for Space Force. We're going to be having the best equipment ever known. And it's going to be tremendous for our workers. A lot of jobs, believe me. We weren't supposed to add manufacturing jobs, nobody thought we could do that. We've added 600,000. In less than two years. Something nobody expected. And if you asked me I would have said a much smaller number. Incredible!!!

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