00:00NASA originally selected only a single provider, the Starship variant from SpaceX,
00:06because Congress, despite knowing better, didn't want to free up a budget for a second system.
00:12The Starship HLS is a gigantic system, radically different from anything that has flown before,
00:19fully reusable, capable of being refueled in orbit, theoretically extremely cheap per mission,
00:24at least on paper, but that creates political pressure and political pushback.
00:30The result? A second competitor was added, Blue Origin.
00:34The Blue Moon architecture from Blue Origin also received a NASA contract,
00:38but with a significantly different philosophy, more conservative, modular and built in a more traditional way.
00:44More traditional aerospace thinking, less revolutionary but more evolutionary, still sustainable and reusable.
00:54Suddenly, there is no longer the Lunar Lander. Blue Origin's first unmanned Blue Moon, Mark 1 Lander,
01:01Endurance, is scheduled to launch towards the Moon on a new Glenn rocket in the coming weeks and land for
01:07the first time.
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