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[i]Companies may bid on one or all three elements of NASA's proposed landing system — a Transfer vehicle that will move astronauts to and from the Lunar Gateway to low-lunar orbit, a Descent vehicle that will carry humans down to the surface, and an Ascent vehicle that will carry the crew back to lunar orbit. After this Phase A, NASA says it will select "zero, one, or two" awards for design and development and that such fixed-price contracts will be valued at "multiple hundreds of millions of dollars." Because the "Descent" element is expected to fly first, NASA says that such proposals "are expected to receive a majority of overall funding." Participating firms are expected to share costs with NASA, which means they are supposed to invest about 20 percent of their own funding into lander development.[/i]
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