Amazon to start delivering packages to the MOON after revealing 'lunar cargo delivery service'

After decades of neglect, the moon appears to be a hot property again.
Days after SpaceX boss Elon Musk announced he would be sending a couple of paying customers on a round-the-moon trip , Jeff Bezos makes his own announcement about our nearest satellite.
Bezos, as well as being boss of Amazon, runs Blue Origin - a private space company of his own.



And according to the Washington Post (which he also owns) Mr. Bezos wants to set up a lunar delivery service to ship cargo up to the moon. A bit like Amazon Prime in space.

NASA needs to create “incentives to the private sector to demonstrate a commercial lunar cargo delivery service," explained Bezos in a confidential white paper obtained by the Post .
Bezos says he would ideally like such plans in place by 2020 and has a new Blue Origin vehicle in the pipeline that could carry 4,500kg of cargo up to the moon.



The end result is that we could ship materials up to start, and maintain, a human colony on the moon.
“It is time for America to return to the Moon — this time to stay,” Bezos said in response to emailed questions from The Post.

“A permanently inhabited lunar settlement is a difficult and worthy objective. I sense a lot of people are excited about this.”
According to reports, both NASA and Donald Trump's presidential team have been given a copy of the white paper. If they both get on board, it could give Blue Origin a headstart on its main rival, SpaceX.



In fact, Bezos has already got his landing spot picked out. According to the paper, the technology billionaire says a spot near Shackleton Crater on the moon's south pole is an ideal parking spot for his space-based delivery service.