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NASA Opening Up SpaceX Moon Landing Contract to Competition

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas.

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NASA wants companies to compete with SpaceX over a contract it holds to put astronauts on the moon, a fresh sign of blowback over delays with Elon Musk’s Starship spacecraft.

“I’m in the process of opening that contract up,” acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy said in a Fox News interview on Monday. “We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually get us back to the moon first.”

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