Enlarge / Jeff Bezos had hoped to build a lunar lander for NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) For Blue Origin, the honeymoon is over. This summer, the company filed a lawsuit against NASA (NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION) , claiming that the agency ignored its own requirements when it awarded […]
Enlarge / Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith (black hat) walks with Jeff Bezos after his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Shaun Bezos published an open letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday morning and offered to pay more than $2 billion to get the agency’s Human Landing […]
Enlarge / Bill Nelson was confirmed by the US Senate to become NASA administrator on April 30. (credit: NASA) NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the space agency expects a decision from the US Government Accountability Office on a lunar lander protest by August 4. This would seem to set a firm timeline after which NASA […]
Enlarge / Committee Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to former US Sen. Bill Nelson, President Biden’s nominee to be the next administrator of NASA, on April 21, 2021. (credit: NASA) On Wednesday, a US senator added an amendment to unrelated science legislation that would impose significant restrictions on NASA and its plans to return […]