Earlier this year, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin lost a bid to competitor SpaceX to build a human landing system for NASA’s Artemis Program.

NASA announced Tuesday that it has awarded Blue Origin and four other companies a batch of contracts worth a combined $146 million to develop moon lander concepts that could potentially lead to actual landing system development in the future.

It’s a different section under the Artemis Program from the Human Landing System (HLS) contract that was given to SpaceX earlier this year, for which Blue Origin and Dynetics both submitted competing proposals.

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