Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, shared a cryptic photo of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton's expedition in a tweet on Friday.
div > div.group > p:first-child"> But, with only the date of May 9 in the photo's caption, the company left the context for the post unexplained. One likely account is the possible connection between Shackleton's expedition and Blue Origin's bid to send astronauts back to the surface of the moon.The photo is of Shackleton's ship"Endurance" as the explorer attempted to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic more than a century ago.
The presence of"water ice," as NASA calls it, is key to any plans of returning to the moon. Bezos talks often about how he wants to return human beings to the surface of the moon and, like NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine also says, do so with a permanent presence. NASA's 2020 budget request in March revealed new opportunities for private space companies like Blue Origin to earn lucrative future awards. Key within that request was the Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabilities program. The NASA program aims to award billions of dollars in contracts over the next five years so companies will develop spacecraft capable of flying humans to and from the moon.
Bezos pours about $1 billion of his Amazon stock into Blue Origin each year. He has said there should be"a permanent human settlement on one of the poles of the moon" and thinks it's not just time for humans to return to the moon, it's"time to stay."
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