U.S. Denies Bezos Push to Overturn NASA-SpaceX Moon Lander Deal.

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

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said Friday that NASA wasn't required to hand out more than one contract for the lander -- as Blue Origin and its partners argued -- despite the agency's stated preference for providing multiple awards. Keywords: 29638Z; 5043517Z; 711339Z; ALLTOP; ARO; BUSINESS; COS; GEN; GOV; INDUSTRIAL; INDUSTRIES; NORTHAM; SCIENCE; TEC; TRN; TRNTOP; US; WORLD EN 29638Z 5043517Z 711339Z ALLTOP ARO BUSINESS COS GEN GOV INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIES NORTHAM SCIENCE TEC TRN TRNTOP US WORLD Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, lost its bid to stop a $2.9 billion NASA award to Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. for a landing system to return astronauts to the moon. [Extracted from the article]

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