SpaceX picked for moonwalkers

NASA chose SpaceX to build the lunar lander that will eventually put the first woman and person of color on the moon.

The announcement came a few hours after SpaceX’s most international crew of astronauts yet arrived in Florida for a liftoff next week. Elon Musk’s Starship beat out landers proposed by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos.

“We won’t stop at the moon,” said NASA’s acting administrator Steve Jurczyk. Mars is the ultimate goal, he told reporters.

NASA declined to provide a target launch date for the moon-landing Artemis mission, saying a review is underway.