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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:41AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:41AM (#1161612)

    ...knowing that the absolute genius that is Elon Musk, is paving our way into space. What with all the toy flame throwers and a tesla car being launched into space. We as a species certainly have come a long way in our intellectual and emotional evolution... Nice to know we are on par with dogs peeing on fire hydrants when it comes to the space race and advancing beyond a petrol based economy...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:50AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:50AM (#1161615) Journal

    Soon, we make contact.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:57AM (#1161617)

    Jelly much?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:05AM (#1161619)

    dog pees on you fool

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:36AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:36AM (#1161624) Journal

    We as a species certainly have come a long way in our intellectual and emotional evolution...

    I sense you're trying to be sarcastic. But yea, turns out that a crazy billionaire with the best orbital launch infrastructure in the world is a better direction for "emotional evolution" than whoever would try to use that phrase in regular conversation.