Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), is currently looking to send the first woman to the moon's surface through a contract with NASA with his private space company Blue Origin.
It is predicted that by 2024, NASA will be able to make this happen through the establishment of lunar landers. Much research has been conducted, and in particular, the creation of the BE-7 engine has been set to be the first engine to take the first woman to the moon. The BE-7 engine has been in development for years by Blue Origin team experts.
Blue Origin also remains in competition with other space teams, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Dynetics, as well as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic (NASDAQ: SPCE). Some of these companies have recently won development contracts from NASA in April 2020, and so NASA plans to choose two of them in the future in order to continue on their plans of building future space models.
Blue Origin, through a project titled 'Blue Moon,' in particular has chosen to reveal their plans of someday having humans live in space colonies. The space company has made plenty of other additions to the program as well, including designing a lunar lander spacecraft as part of the Artemis program, which specifically allows for only one man and one woman on the moon. Project Artemis will mark mankind's first setting of foot on the moon since 1972, as well as the first time a woman has ever reach Earth's satellite.
As Jeff Bezos and NASA still continue to work together on further space projects outer space as a whole, they hope to speed up the process of successful lunar missions through Blue Origin. The BE-7 engine has thus far underwent 1,245 seconds of test-fire time and soon will be considered an option for empowering the company's National Team Landing System lunar lander.
All in all, Bezos has proven that he is ready to take risks regarding spacecraft and the types of missions that he has planned, so that all types of adventures can be enjoyed, no matter who or what are involved.