Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was rebuffed over its protest of contract for a NASA moon lander that was awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX
A federal agency upheld the decision to make Elon Musk’s SpaceX the sole winner of a contract to develop a lander for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s return to the moon, a setback to Jeff Bezos’ space enterprise.
The decision Friday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office was in response to protests that an affiliate of Mr. Bezos’ Blue Origin LLC and Dynetics, a unit of Leidos Holdings Inc., filed after NASA in April awarded to SpaceX for the lander. Representatives from Blue Origin and Leidos didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment., and winning part of the lander contract was important for the company’s ambitions. Blue Origin’s partners for its lander included Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.l to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson regarding the contract, offering to waive up to $2 billion in payments over roughly the next two years and fund another mission of the lander to low-Earth orbit.
Mr. Nelson declined to comment on the letter during a briefing Thursday. He had previously said at a congressional hearing that NASA would seek more funding to support future bids for its lunar landing system. NASA said Friday that the GAO’s decision would allow it to set a timeline with SpaceX for landing astronauts back on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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