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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) testing its RS-25 engines for the Space Launch System (SLS) in March this year. The SLS will form the backbone of the agency's Artemis program and take astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft to a lunar space station from which they will board a Space Exploration Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) Starship lunar lander to make it to the Moon's surface. Image: NASA TV

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2.9 billion contract to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) yesterday for the second phase of the agency's plan to develop a lunar lander. This lander will form the backbone of NASA's Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the Moon, and SpaceX bid its Starship spacecraft for the proposal.