You can t win them all.
Blue Origin s protest of SpaceX s multi-billion dollar contract was shot down by the U.S. watchdog organization, dashing CEO Jeff Bezos hopes to develop NASA s lunar lander for the foreseeable future, according to a statement from the agency.
And, predictably, CEO SpaceX Elon Musk loved it.
Blue Origin offered to cut $2 billion from its proposal
Blue Origin s protest was denied by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Friday, in addition to another, distinct challenge to SpaceX s NASA contract from Dynetics, a defense contractor that submitted a proposal for the same deal. GAO s decision found that NASA hadn t violated any regulations or laws when it gave SpaceX sole recipiency of the reward. As a result, GAO denied the protest arguments that NASA acted improperly in making a single award to SpaceX, read GAO s Friday statement. Blue Origin was unsatisfied with NASA s decision to give a major contract for its Human Landing System Program, which w
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