“Blue Moon is on our roadmap, and because of our scale, because of what we see from the government, we brought it a little bit forward in time,” Charania said during the NewSpace conference. “I think we are very excited to now implement this long-term commercial solution with NASA partnership.”
A CROWDED SPACE. Blue Origin isn't the only aerospace company eying a return to the Moon. SpaceX has floated plans for future Moon colonization, while NASA, China Manned Space Agency, and Russia's space agency Roscosmos all have manned lunar missions in the works.
With so many organizations in on the effort, it seems like it's only a matter of time before humans take that one small step once again.