Blue Origin accused NASA of “illegal and inappropriate evaluation” of its proposals during the tender.
Company Blue Origin Jeff Bezos will sue NASA due to the agency’s favor to SpaceX Ilona Mask. The second company received a contract for $ 2.9 billion for the lunar program. On Monday, August 16, writes about this The Verge.
We are talking about the construction of a lunar module, which the space agency decided to “give in the hands” of Elon Musk.
Representative Blue Origin emphasized that the contract with Elon Musk’s company has many problems that must be eliminated in order to balance the competition.
An important role in the choice SpaceX, played by the fact that the company offered for its services a price that is half that of Blue Origin. The US space agency explained that funding is limited by Congress. He “allocated only a quarter of the amount required for the lunar program.”
Solution NASA to give the order to only one private company has already been confirmed by the US Audit Office.
It is known that the Bezos company released an infographic criticizing the lander of Elon Musk. Blue Origin noticed that Starship I have never gone out of orbit before. In this regard, Bezos requires the use of exclusively proven technologies.
Blue Origin updated its HLS infographic about SpaceX’s Starship, saying this is “what immense complexity & heightened risk’ looks like for going back to the moon:” pic.twitter.com/QtffH8dEio
— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) August 13, 2021
Earlier, Amazon founder and owner of the private space company Blue Origin Jeff Bezos offered NASA to cover up to $ 2 billion costs in exchange for a lunar module contract.
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