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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin bids on NASA's lucrative moon contract again after losing to SpaceX last year

The United States plans to solicit new designs for vehicles that can ferry astronauts to and from the moon, launching a new competition to Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Earlier this week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) announced its plans to release a draft request for proposals by the end of March for moon lander concepts for missions after the Artemis III program, which aims to bring astronauts to the moon in 2025.