NASA taps three commercial ventures to land payloads on the moon by 2021

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NASA awarded more than $250 million in contracts May 31 to three companies to deliver payloads to the lunar surface by 2021. The agency said it awarded contracts to Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and OrbitBeyond to carry up to 23 payloads to the moon on three commercial lunar lander missions scheduled for launch between September 2020 and July 2021. The three companies were selected for these task orders from the nine companies that received Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) awards in November 2018.