mo4ch:>Bezos unveils Moon lander, space colonization dreams after Trump admin moves up Moon base timeline | Mo4ch News

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled an unmanned Moon lander and a new rocket engine developed by his Blue Origin space program with an eye toward getting in on the ground floor of space colonization.The two-story unmanned 'Blue Moon' lander can carry up to four smaller rovers and several satellites, Bezos said, showing off a mockup of the module at a media event in Washington. He hopes to make Blue Moon NASA's go-to for delivering payloads to the Moon's surface, part of a concerted effort to involve his company in constructing the basic infrastructure on which the Moon colonies of the future will depend."We are going to build a road to space," Bezos told the audience. "And then amazing things will happen."The billionaire shared some of his big ideas about the future of space, describing rotating "habitats" equipped with artificial gravity and plant life and hosting over a million people, and blamed the high cost of celestial experimentation…