Jeff Bezos’ private space firm Blue Origin has registered a protest against NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9B contract to choose another two U.S. astronauts to the moon, local press reports.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ private space firm Blue Origin has registered a protest against NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX a 2.9-billion-dollar contract to shoot another two US astronauts to the moon, local press reported Monday.
Before this month, NASA awarded the contract, a portion of a programme intending to return astronauts to the moon by 2024, to SpaceX over Blue Origin and defence builder Dynetics.
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NASA was expected to select two of those three groups to build lunar landers, which makes its own assortment of SpaceX since the only winner a surprise.
“In NASA’s words, it’s made a’high risk’ choice. Their choice eliminates chances for competition, substantially outperforming the distribution base, rather than just waits, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon,” Blue Origin stated in a statement mentioned by numerous US media outlets.
“Because of this, we have registered a protest with the [Government Accountability Office],” Blue Origin explained.
The business maintained that the US space agency”implemented a faulty acquisition for the Individual Landing Program application and moved the goalposts in the last moment,”Daily Reuters cited the statement .
The SpaceX Starship, that was made to land on the moon, is meant to finally evolve into a totally reusable launch and landing system which may be used for distance travel to destinations such as the moon and Mars.
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The assignment will visit four astronauts found on NASA’s Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit, where two of these – at least among which a female – will move to the SpaceX human landing platform for their final trip to the moon.
The US attracted 12 astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972.