Space: Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' company, is still suing NASA
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, in Van Horn, Texas, July 20, 2021. AP - Tony Gutierrez
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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, announced Monday, August 16, that it had filed a complaint in federal court against Nasa, the US space agency.
The Amazon founder is adamant that NASA's decision to award SpaceX with the project to build the next manned moon landing system is unfair and lacks bias.
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Blue Origin had
already lodged a complaint last April
for the same reason before the body of Congress responsible for the control of public accounts and against NASA. This complaint had been rejected, the justice having considered that the American space agency had not violated the regulations in force to designate the winner of this contract:
SpaceX, the competitor company of Elon Musk
. It is she who will build the manned lunar module with, at the end of the day, a contract of 2.9 billion dollars and the privilege of participating in one of the most important space missions of the next two or three decades.
But Blue Origin does not budge, NASA should have appointed several winners to create competition.
"
We firmly believe that the problems identified in this acquisition must be addressed to restore impartiality, create competition and ensure America's safe return to the moon,
" said a spokesperson for the company in a statement. declaration sent to AFP.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon
, still hopes to be part of the adventure with his Blue Moon module.
At the end of July, he even tried a game of poker by offering NASA a discount of $ 2 billion to steal this contract from SpaceX.
Wasted effort.
NASA's ambition, within the framework of the Artemis program, is to send American astronauts - including a woman, for the first time - to the Moon in 2024. Since the Apollo 17 mission, in December 1972, man has not no longer trod the lunar soil.
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