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		</div><p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon.</p>
<p>Mr Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small house, capable of carrying four rovers and using a newly designed rocket engine.</p>
<p>It would be followed by a version that could bring people to the moon along the same timeframe as Nasa’s proposed 2024 return.</p>
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<p>Mr Bezos, who was dwarfed by his mock-up of the Blue Moon lunar lander at his presentation on Thursday, said: <em>“This is an incredible vehicle and it’s going to the moon.”</em></p>
<p>He added: <em>“It’s time to go back to the moon. This time to stay.”</em></p>
<h4><strong>Related:</strong> <a href="http://londonglossy.com/fly-moon-spacex-take-tourists-next-year/">SpaceX plans to take passengers to moon</a></h4>
<p>The announcement for the usually secretive space company came with all the glitz of an Apple product launch in a darkened convention ballroom with shimmering stars on its walls.</p>
<p>Astronauts and other space luminaries sat in the audience under blue-tinted lighting before Mr Bezos unveiled the boxy ship with four long and spindly landing legs.</p>
<p>Mr Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, walked off the stage without providing details, including launch dates, customers and the plan for humans on his rockets.</p>
<p>He spent more time talking about his dream of future generations living on orbiting space station colonies than on concrete details about Blue Origin missions.</p>
<p>Blue Origin officials gave conflicting answers to questions about when the company would land on the moon with and without people.</p>
<p>Blue Origin vice president Clay Mowry said 2024 was not a concrete goal for a mission with people and said it was more up to Nasa as a potential customer.</p>
<p>Former US representative Robert Walker, a private space consultant who is working with Blue Origin, said it plans for a 2023 launch without people.</p>
<p>Blue Origin in 2017 revealed plans to send an unmanned, reusable rocket, capable of carrying 10,000 pounds of payload, to the moon. The company had a successful launch earlier this month, reusing one of its New Shepherd rockets, which barely goes to the edge of space, for a fifth time.</p>
<p>The new moon race has a lower profile than the one in the 1960s. It involves private companies, new countries and a Nasa return mission to place astronauts back on the lunar surface by 2024.</p>
<p>While a 30 million dollar prize for private companies to send robotic probes to the moon went unclaimed last year, one of the competitors, from an Israeli private non-profit company, crashed last month as it tried to land.</p>
<p>China has landed a rover on the moon’s far side. SpaceX last year announced plans to send a Japanese businessman around the moon in 2023.</p>
<p>The first successful moon landing was by the Soviet Union in 1966 with Luna 9, followed by the US four months later. Nasa put the first — and only — people on the moon in the Apollo programme, starting with Apollo 11 in July 1969.</p>
<p><em>“The next leap in space will be fueled by commercial companies like Blue Origin and commercial innovation,”</em> said former Obama White House space adviser Phil Larson, now an assistant dean of engineering at the University of Colorado.</p>
<p>Space companies have in the past made big announcements with goals that never came true.</p>
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<p>Former Nasa deputy administrator Dava Newman, an MIT professor working as a customer of Blue Origin, said this time it iss different. The new engine is the reason, she said, <em>“it’s for real”</em>.</p>
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