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The billionaire space race heats up: Jeff Bezos wins $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon in Blue Origin craft… after Elon Musk’s SpaceX was awarded separate $3B deal. So who will get there first?
Date: May 20, 2023Author: Nwo Report
Posted BY: | NwoReport
Jeff Bezos’ announcement of a $3.4 billion contract with NASA on Friday puts him one small step closer to putting a man on the moon.
But he’ll need a giant leap to beat arch-rival Elon Musk to the achievement.
NASA announced on Friday it has awarded Bezos and his private rocket firm Blue Origin the contract as part of its Artemis missions to take astronauts back to the moon.
Unfortunately for the Amazon billionaire, his space exploration rival Elon Musk is slated to make the same trip first – after NASA handed Musk’s SpaceX a similar Artemis contract in 2021.
While Musk and his company leading the way, NASA’s new contract with Blue Origin heats up the space race between the two billionaires, who’ve spent years trading jibes about their respective efforts to lead humanity’s endeavors in space.
‘We are going to the Moon!’ Bezos said in an Instagram post, alongside a mock-up of Blue Origin’s proposed lunar lander, ‘This time to stay.’
His post teased a permanent human station on the Moon – and suggests his mission is more ambitious than Musks.
Musk‘s SpaceX won $3 billion in 2021 to put humans back on the moon for the first time since 1972. Bezos and Blue Origin had tried in vain to win that contract – then launched a failed lawsuit to overturn the decision.
Bezos and Blue Origin not only filed a complaint protesting Musk’s victory, rejected by the Government Accountability Office but then sued in federal court and lost again.
NASA said the missions will ‘explore more of the lunar surface than ever before’ and that putting humans back on the moon will help conduct research to eventually launch similar missions on Mars.
Announcing Blue Origin’s contract on Friday, NASA’s chief administrator Bill Nelson was positive about the race and said the agency ‘wants more competition’.
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Date: May 20, 2023Author: Nwo Report
Posted BY: | NwoReport
Jeff Bezos’ announcement of a $3.4 billion contract with NASA on Friday puts him one small step closer to putting a man on the moon.
But he’ll need a giant leap to beat arch-rival Elon Musk to the achievement.
NASA announced on Friday it has awarded Bezos and his private rocket firm Blue Origin the contract as part of its Artemis missions to take astronauts back to the moon.
Unfortunately for the Amazon billionaire, his space exploration rival Elon Musk is slated to make the same trip first – after NASA handed Musk’s SpaceX a similar Artemis contract in 2021.
While Musk and his company leading the way, NASA’s new contract with Blue Origin heats up the space race between the two billionaires, who’ve spent years trading jibes about their respective efforts to lead humanity’s endeavors in space.
‘We are going to the Moon!’ Bezos said in an Instagram post, alongside a mock-up of Blue Origin’s proposed lunar lander, ‘This time to stay.’
His post teased a permanent human station on the Moon – and suggests his mission is more ambitious than Musks.
Musk‘s SpaceX won $3 billion in 2021 to put humans back on the moon for the first time since 1972. Bezos and Blue Origin had tried in vain to win that contract – then launched a failed lawsuit to overturn the decision.
Bezos and Blue Origin not only filed a complaint protesting Musk’s victory, rejected by the Government Accountability Office but then sued in federal court and lost again.
NASA said the missions will ‘explore more of the lunar surface than ever before’ and that putting humans back on the moon will help conduct research to eventually launch similar missions on Mars.
Announcing Blue Origin’s contract on Friday, NASA’s chief administrator Bill Nelson was positive about the race and said the agency ‘wants more competition’.
Full Story
THANKS TO: https://nworeport.me/the-billionaire-space-race-heats-up-jeff-bezos-wins-3-4b-nasa-contract-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon-in-blue-origin-craft-after-elon-musks-spacex-was-awarded-separate-3b-deal-so-who-will-get/
