Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has lost a lawsuit against NASA it filed over the agency’s decision to award a $2.9 billion contract to Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX to build a lunar lander to transport astronauts to the Moon
offered as a permanent waiver of all payments over the next two years to “get the program back on track right now” if the agency redirected the contract to Blue Origin, Bezos said in an
to NASA in July after NASA awarded the contract to SpaceX in April. Bezos added Blue Origin would additionally pay for a low-Earth orbit mission and cover any extra costs as needed.with the Government Accountability Office, saying NASA was “unreasonable” in assessing the proposals and that it had “improperly” waived a mandatory solicitation requirement for SpaceX.
to develop the first “commercial human lander” to carry the astronauts from the Orion spacecraft to the surface of the moon. The trip would be the first since the early 1970s.
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