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Amazon's owner wants to extend its delivery range--to the moon
After more than 40 years of putzing around low Earth orbit, everyone is suddenly in a rush to go back to the moon. Two weeks ago, NASA announced that it's considering launching humans into lunar orbit as soon as 2019. This week, SpaceX unveiled a plan to send a Crew Dragon spacecraft holding two private citizens around the moon in 2018. And now Jeff Bezos wants in on the action.
In an exclusive with the (Bezos-owned) Washington Post, the (Bezos-owned) private space company Blue Origin detailed its plans to set up a cargo delivery route to the moon—much like (Bezos-owed) Amazon.com. The proposal has reportedly been sent to NASA and President Trump's transition team, several members of which have advocated a human return to the moon.
Although the details of the proposal have not been released to the public, here's what we can glean from the WaPo article: