Enlarge / Former Florida Senator Bill Nelson was confirmed as NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) administrator earlier this year. (credit: NASA)
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he is not upset with Blue Origin for pursuing all legal avenues after losing a space agency contract for the lunar lander.
“We are a nation of laws and as such we want to follow the law, ” Nelson stated in response to a question from Ars. “They have a new right of appeal, and they have chosen to exercise that right. They have every right under the law to do that, and there will be a determination. And then we will move on. ”
Nearly five months have passed since NASA selected SpaceX to build a Human Landing System for its lunar program, named Artemis. After the decision both Blue Origin and another bidder, Dynetics, protested the award to the US Government Accountability Office, and in late July the demonstration was rejected.
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