Lockheed Martin to build landers Posted on September 1, 2006 by Robin NASA has finally awarded the contract to build the new manned lander craft that will take people back to the moon in 2020 and hopefully to Mars. They are going back to the system that runs Arianne and Soyuz and the old NASA Apollo rockets: ie. a tiny capsule balanced on top of a huge damn rocket to escape the atmosphere and then it’s back on its own. They’re calling them Orions.
