Bezos's Rocket Maker Protests NASA's Moon Lander Award to SpaceX.

SPACE Exploration Technologies Corp. ; UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

The Blue Origin-led team bid $5.99 billion compared with $2.91 billion for SpaceX, based on NASA's evaluation of the proposals, Bezos's rocket maker said in the protest. "NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute", Blue Origin said Monday in a statement accompanying the challenge to NASA's decision. [Extracted from the article]

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