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Amid protests from Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin, the US space agency has suspended work on the $2.9 billion lunar lander contract given to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX.
Blue Origin had filed a protest with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) against NASA for awarding $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024.
The US space agency was expected to pick two lunar lander prototypes (including one of Blue Origin s) but funding cut from US Congress led the agency to select SpaceX over Blue Origin. Pursuant to the GAO protests, NASA instructed SpaceX that progress on the HLS contract has been suspended until GAO resolves all outstanding litigation related to this procurement, NASA spokeswoman Monica Witt said in a statement, reports The Verge.
Mental health services struggled to meet increased demand during pandemic, study finds By Tori B. Powell Mental health crisis surging among many Americans
Anxiety, depression, and emergency department visits for drug overdoses and suicide attempts all rose during the pandemic all while behavioral health services in the past year struggled to meet increased demand, according to a study released Friday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The study analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that 27% more adults in the U.S. reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the pandemic, between April 2020 and February 2021, compared to in 2019. ER visits for drug overdoses increased by 36% and ER visits for suicide attempts rose by 26% in the past year compared to the same time period of the year earlier.