NASA Enables Unique Commercial Lunar Delivery Service

Under NASA’s Artemis Program we are going back to the Moon, but this time to stay. Ahead of humans, we want to send as much science and technology as possible and NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative will enable American companies to do something they’ve never done before – land on the Moon. CLPS is meant to provide affordable, rapid and frequent access to the lunar surface and enable American companies to deliver our science experiments and technologies to the lunar surface for us. This unique commercial delivery service is poised to change the way we work and perform science at the Moon, greatly expanding our capabilities for exploration. With any new endeavor there is a new level of risk. With CLPS, NASA has accepted the risk that going through this innovative approach with commercial companies, that there could be some failures. Even with a few failures, CLPS remains an affordable and beneficial approach to lunar exploration. And with every failure comes lessons learned that will improve future missions to come