NASA selected three commercial lunar landing service providers in May 2019 to deliver science and technology payloads to the moon. One of those three, Orbit Beyond, dropped out of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program two months later. Credit: NASA artist concept

It was nearly a year ago that Astrobotic received the call that we had been selected to deliver the first collection of payloads to the moon from the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. It was both thrilling and humbling to be tapped to lead America back to the moon, and we have been hard at work to deliver for our customers and our nation. Since that phone call, we have grown our team to 72 employees, acquired a new lunar logistics headquarters, cut metal for our structural test model, and coordinated engine hot fires for our lander propulsion system.

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