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Musk, as he fights DEI, is being paid to send 1st woman, person of color to the moon

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In 2021 , NASA awarded a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX to build a spacecraft for long-term human exploration of the moon under its Artemis program.

Artemis program aims to bring humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 .

SpaceX has received more than $18 billion in federal contracts over the last decade , with NASA making up $13 billion .