What a commercial crewed moon mission could look like

What a commercial crewed moon mission could look like

Just as travel to and from low Earth orbit has gone commercial, so will voyages to and from the moon.

Moon Monday #226: Blue Origin aims to launch its first two Moon missions by next year—with nearly no NASA payloads

Illustration of the Blue Moon Mark 1 lander. Image: Blue OriginJeff Foust reports that Blue Origin indeed aims to launch its robotic Blue Moon Mark I lander later this year on a New Glenn rocket. The trip to the Moon will take seven days, and the landing site will be somewhere on the Moon’s south pole. The region is known to have water ice deposits based on orbital remote sensing measurements but it’s unclear what payloads the Mark I will carry …