Amazon founder wants to deliver stuff to the moon

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to work with space company Blue Origin to deliver items to order on the moon. This has to be done with a special lunar lander called Blue Moon.

Bezos made his plans known in an interview with The Washington Post, after the newspaper had already obtained a confidential white paper. The intention is that there will be permanent habitation on the moon, and that Blue Origin, the space company founded by Bezos, will then provide supplies.

According to the information in the white paper, Bezos is working on some kind of Amazon service for the space. Among other things, supplies, equipment for scientific experiments and material for living environments could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin. The plans should become reality in the middle of the next decade, although the first mission could even take place in 2020. There seem to be no plans for the time being to deliver people to the moon in addition to stuff.

Bezos hopes NASA will support Blue Origin’s plans. A new lunar lander must be developed, which can be launched with, among other things, its own New Glenn rocket, but it must also be possible to launch the Blue Moon from NASA’s Space Launch System.

Blue Origin has been testing rockets for commercial spaceflight offerings for some time now. On several occasions, the company has managed to land rockets after takeoff, similar to what SpaceX does with its Falcon 9 rocket.