NASA awards contracts for Artemis moon mission

Published June 1, 2019 11:31pm ET



NASA took a step forward Friday in its efforts to get the U.S. back to the moon.

The agency awarded contracts worth more than $250 million to Astrobotic, OrbitBeyond, and Intuitive Machines to send payloads to the surface of the moon by 2021, according to Space News.

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