NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to return humans to the Moon by 2024. The independent space agency revealed on Thursday it had awarded $967 million in deals to three US companies in relation to its Artemis project: Musk‘s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin, and IT firm Dynetics. The three firms will submit competing designs for a human landing system to be used in NASA’s Artemis project, and will only be paid once meeting specific development milestones. “We are on our way,” said NASA associate administrator Douglas Loverro. “With these awards we begin an exciting partnership with the…

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