Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is really pissed off that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was awarded the official NASA contract to build crucial parts of a future lunar mission. So much in fact, that Bezos’s Blue Origin has filed a 50-page protest of the contract award with Government Accountability Office.
This is like the ultimate James Bond film we’ve been waiting our entire lives for. A fever dream delight of an epic reboot of “Moonraker” with billionaires.
The $2.9 billion contract was awarded to SpaceX to design the lander that NASA will use to transport astronauts back to the moon. The company, who has successfully reused rockets multiple times, will reportedly be using their Mars mission Starship rocket design. Blue Origin submitted a design that looked far more traditional.
The protest, which the New York Times alerted us to, stems primarily from Blue Origin’s bid for the project, which also included three big name companies who often work with the US Government on such things- Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper.
Musk has since tweeted his very real and non-jokey response to the protest news…
Mary Anne Butler
Mary Anne Butler (Mab) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (where she was News Editor), and now Nerdbot as Editor-In-Chief. Over the past 10 years, she’s built a reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence. Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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