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/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 23, to provide an update on the agency's goals to transport astronauts...

The two execs have sparred over their respective space ambitions — Musk runs SpaceX, while Bezos owns Blue Origin — but it hasn't stopped there.

Combined value for the awards is $253.4 million and the work will be conducted throughout the next five years.

The awards under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Appendix N broad agency announcement are firm fixed-price, milestone-based contracts. The total combined value for the awards is $146 million, and the work will be conducted over the next 15 months. The companies that received awards and their award…

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 t...