TechCrunch Summary (2023-05-19 08AM)

Source: NASA picks Blue Origin-led team to build second human landing system on the moon, joining SpaceX

Summary
NASA has chosen a Blue Origin-led team to develop a second lunar landing system for the Artemis program, increasing competition with SpaceX in long-term exploration of the moon. The winning team includes Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Draper, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics, and will develop the landing system for the Artemis V mission, which will launch no earlier than September 2029.

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🚀 The Blue Origin-led team includes Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Draper, Astrobotic and Honeybee Robotics.

🌕 The landing system will be developed for the Artemis V mission, which launches no earlier than September 2029.

👨‍🚀 The aim is to enable a permanent human presence on the moon, with about a mission a month and up to a 30-day stay by astronauts.

💰 NASA selected SpaceX to develop a Starship human landing system in April 2021 at a cost of around $2.9 billion.

🛰️ The Blue Origin-led team will develop the landing vehicle while SpaceX will develop Starship, to ferry astronauts between the moon surface and a space station called “Gateway”.

Source: The billionaires are trying to live longer… again

Summary
Billionaires are investing heavily in life-extension research again.

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💰 Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Breakout Labs invested in a life-extension start-up called Metacrine.

🧬 Biotech company Unity raised $116m for its anti-aging drugs.

🧪 Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has invested in biotech start-up Celularity, which is researching “cellular medicine” to extend human lifespan.

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