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Washington Post: Blue Origin Challenging NASA’s Lunar Lander Award to SpaceX

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Just over a week after it lost out on a high-profile and lucrative contract to build the next spacecraft that would land astronauts on the moon, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed a protest over NASA’s decision, saying it was flawed.
NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build the lunar lander, a huge victory that surprised many in the space industry. Blue Origin had vigorously pursued the contract, building what it called a “national team” including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, to compete for it.

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