By Paul Brinkmann
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Thursday to land humans on the moon by 2024 -- in a new lander called Blue Moon.
The company held a news conference in Washington, D.C., to announce the plan and updated its website with new descriptions and images.
Rendering of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. Photo courtesy of Blue Origin
"Blue Moon can land multiple metric tons of payload on the lunar surface," the website said. "The larger variant of Blue Moon has been designed to land an ascent vehicle that will allow us to return Americans to the Moon by 2024."
Blue Origin is based in Kent, Wash., and has built out a 750,000-square-foot plant for its New Glenn rocket just outside Kennedy Space Center. It plans to launch the powerful space vehicle from Cape Canaveral.
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