Elon Musk Takes To Roasting Jeff Bezos As Latter's Blue Origin Protests NASA's $2.9B Contract To SpaceX Benzinga 2 hrs ago Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has poked fun at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos after the latter’s space exploration company Blue Origin protested NASA’s award of a $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX. What Happened: The New York Times reported that Blue Origin filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday, challenging NASA’s award of a lunar lander contract to Musk’s SpaceX earlier this month. Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith said in an interview with the New York Times that NASA’s decision was flawed as it misjudged advantages of Blue Origin’s proposal and downplayed the technical challenges related to SpaceX. He also said NASA had placed a bigger emphasis on bottom-line cost than it said it would.