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GAO Denies Blue Origin and Dynetics Protests Against SpaceX's $3 Billion Lunar Lander Award

posted by chromas on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:30AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Watchdog denies Blue Origin's challenge to NASA's lunar lander program

Blue Origin's protest against NASA's decision to pick just one company to build the country's first human lunar lander in decades was denied by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the watchdog agency said Friday, also denying a similar protest from Dynetics. The decision keeps Blue Origin's rival, Elon Musk's SpaceX, the sole winner of NASA's lucrative Moon lander program and hands a loss to Jeff Bezos, whose space company waged a months-long fight to win the same funding.

In a formal protest filed in April, Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics had accused NASA of running afoul of contracting law when the agency shelved their proposals and gave Musk's SpaceX a lone $3 billion contract to land a crew of humans on the Moon by 2024. NASA had said it could award up to two companies for the contract, but never committed to that number, and went with SpaceX's Starship proposal. The GAO found that NASA "reserved the right to make multiple awards, a single award, or no award at all."

Musk responded to the news by tweeting "GAO" with a flexing bicep emoji.

Also at CNBC and Wccftech.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 31 2021, @02:16AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 31 2021, @02:16AM (#1161590) Homepage Journal

    The GAO is probably the most impartial agency in the US government. Their raison d'être is to uncover waste, fraud, abuse, and any form of misappropriation of government funds. They don't play favorites. They will nail a D as readily as an R, or any sort of Independent. They've buried high officers from all the services, and they've exposed elected and appointed officials at all levels of government.

    GAO has spoken - now everyone take a hike.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:08PM (#1161712)

    I wish that was the end of it but this whole dog-and-pony show was for Congress' benefit. The rot runs deep and this only scratches the surface, but it is a step in the right direction.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:57PM (#1161956)

    Have the GAO found the missing twenty million yet?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:00PM (#1161958)

      For fuck's sake.

      twenty *trillion*