Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ dick-measuring contest has reached new heights, literally, now that they are officially waging war against each other over the moon. As if their mutual destructive rampage across Eart wasn’t already enough to worry about!
The Washington Postreports that Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has filed a formal protest with NASA over the organization’s decision to award Elon Musk’s explosion-prone rocket program a $2.9 billion contract to build the next lunar lander, which if successful would make it the first company do to so since the Apollo mission in 1972.
The Post also reports that other murder-technology government contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman had also joined Blue Origin’s “national team” to compete for the contract. The formal statement from Blue Origin reads:
“NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute. In NASA’s own words, it has made a ‘high risk’ selection. Their decision eliminates opportunities for competition, significantly narrows the supply base, and not only delays, but also endangers America’s return to the Moon.”
Blue Origin’s chief executive Bob Smith called the decision “fundamentally unfair,” while Dynetics, another murder technology defense contractor who lost the bid, filed a protest as well. Everyone wants to get rich off this moon quest!
