“If he wants to go to the moon let him use his own money, not U.S. taxpayers’.”
Jeff Bezos’s space company is back in the running to return NASA astronauts to the moon, but Sen.to compete for a contract to develop a lunar lander after it lost out to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX last year.
The space agency’s public-private partnership is also designed so the winners kick in a significant amount of their own money — a novel approach that the Biden administrationit plans to expand to develop a more permanent presence on the moon and foster a commercial space economy. Since NASA chose SpaceX a year ago to build its lunar lander, Blue Origin has been lobbying Congress and NASA to open the program back up for competition. Along with fellow losing bidder Dynetics, Blue Origin formally protested the $2.9 billion award to SpaceX, and then unsuccessfully sued NASA.Maria CantwellCantwell has been the primary booster for authorizing more money after NASA said last year it didn’t have enough funding to finance a second moon lander.
“If Mr. Bezos wants to go to the moon, good for him,” Sanders said in remarks on the Senate floor last week. “He has $186 billion in personal wealth. He became $81 billion richer during the pandemic. He is the second richest person in America. And, in a given year, Mr. Bezos has paid nothing in federal income taxes.
In the meantime, Blue Origin has been “making lots of phone calls” to Capitol Hill in recent days to try to combat Sanders’ narrative, which it insists is a wild mischaracterization of what’s happening, according to an industry official with direct knowledge of the lobbying campaign.
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