Jeff Bezos tries again with NASA to go to the Moon instead of SpaceX

The tycoon proposes special conditions to the American space agency which in April chose the company of Elon Msuk to bring man back to the Earth's satellite by 2024

(Blue Origin) Jeff Bezos aims at the Moon and continues to closely mark NASA. In a letter to Bill Nelson, the administrator of the government space agency, the owner of Amazon proposed the services of Blue Origin by offering special conditions. The tycoon's company would cover up to $ 2 billion in NASA expenses for the current fiscal year and the next two if the agency awarded it a contract to build a space shuttle to take astronauts back to the lunar surface. It would also pay an orbital mission to test its technology. In return Blue Origin would accept a fixed price contract and cover any overruns in system development costs.

Actually for the Artemis program, which aims to bring man back to the moon for the first time since 1972, NASA has already assigned the job elsewhere. That is to Elon Musk. To identify the supplier, the agency had in fact launched a tender, first assigning a ten-month contract for the study and proposal of a solution to three competitors: SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics, a defense contractor. SpaceX won it in April, obtaining the $ 2.9 billion assignment, the year of the moon landing set for 2024. The choice was suggested by the experience of Elon Musk's company and the decline in funding, as explained by the agency.

Blue Origin filed a complaint with the US Government Control Office, alleging that SpaceX had had the opportunity to change the proposed price. Jeff Bezos' company had offered, during the tender, the project of its lunar lander (the Blue Lander) in collaboration with Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and Draper. The authority's response is expected in August, but it seems unlikely that it could subvert NASA's decision, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, the Seattle entrepreneur's strategy has moved forward, with a letter addressed directly to Nelson.



“NASA has veered away from its original dual acquisition strategy, due to issues short-term budget, and this offer removes the obstacle - he wrote -. Without competition, the short and long-term lunar ambitions will be postponed, in the end they will cost more and the national interest will not be needed ". In the field of space tourism, Blue Origin has already sold tickets for $ 100 million and is working on the construction of other accelerator rockets to ensure greater frequency, after the pioneering experience of Bezos himself on 20 July.


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