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Amazon CEO wants moon package delivery starting 2020
AMAZON plans to start delivering equipment to the MOON by 2020 to help establish the first human settlement, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.
The Earth-to-Moon cargo delivery service would transport up 10,000 pounds of goods to the Moon's South Pole, reported UK's MailOnline.
Mr Bezos owns a private space company called Blue Origin and he hopes it will provide the lunar equivalent of Amazon Prime. He has already reserved his parking spot near the Shackleton Crater on the South Pole, where there is constant sunlight and water nearby could be used as a source of hydrogen for rocket fuel, according to The Verge.
Shackleton Crater could be turned into 'an oasis of warm sunlight surrounded by a desert of freezing cold darkness', NASA said.
"It is time for America to return to the Moon - this time to stay," Mr Bezos told Washington Post. "A permanently inhabited lunar settlement is a difficult and worthy objective. I sense a lot of people are excited about this," he said, adding in a white paper that the mission could only happen in partnership with NASA.
"Our liquid hydrogen expertise and experience with precision vertical landing offer the fastest path to a lunar lander mission," Mr Bezos wrote. "I'm excited about this and am ready to invest my own money alongside NASA to make it happen."
With the help of NASA, Mr Bezos wants to develop "incentives in the private sector to demonstrate a commercial lunar cargo delivery service."
Blue Origin has a range of rockets. As well as sending goods to the moon in 2020, the firm has also confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
The Earth-to-Moon cargo delivery service would transport up 10,000 pounds of goods to the Moon's South Pole, reported UK's MailOnline.
Mr Bezos owns a private space company called Blue Origin and he hopes it will provide the lunar equivalent of Amazon Prime. He has already reserved his parking spot near the Shackleton Crater on the South Pole, where there is constant sunlight and water nearby could be used as a source of hydrogen for rocket fuel, according to The Verge.
Shackleton Crater could be turned into 'an oasis of warm sunlight surrounded by a desert of freezing cold darkness', NASA said.
"It is time for America to return to the Moon - this time to stay," Mr Bezos told Washington Post. "A permanently inhabited lunar settlement is a difficult and worthy objective. I sense a lot of people are excited about this," he said, adding in a white paper that the mission could only happen in partnership with NASA.
"Our liquid hydrogen expertise and experience with precision vertical landing offer the fastest path to a lunar lander mission," Mr Bezos wrote. "I'm excited about this and am ready to invest my own money alongside NASA to make it happen."
With the help of NASA, Mr Bezos wants to develop "incentives in the private sector to demonstrate a commercial lunar cargo delivery service."
Blue Origin has a range of rockets. As well as sending goods to the moon in 2020, the firm has also confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
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