Here's How SpaceX Won NASA's Lunar Lander Contract

NASA was focused on costs when considering options for a key contract to land astronauts on the moon again, and that played right into the hands of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Here's a look behind the scenes at the process by which the space agency chose the manufacturer for the landing system for its ambitious Artemis program, and what will come next for all parties involved. NASA had originally intended to pick two winners to ensure redundancy, but SpaceX beat out Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Leidos Holdings' (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary Dynetics in what turned out to be a winner-take-all $2.9 billion contract largely due to budgetary pressures.