Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin blasted NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX the sole contract to build a lunar lander.
Starship prototype rocket SN15 touches down on the company's landing pad on May 5, 2021, in Boca Chica, Texas.Blue Origin made additional technical comparisons, noting that SpaceX's plan requires more than 10 Starship launches to land once on the moon and needs to be refueled in orbit, "a process that has also never been done before."
Lastly, Blue Origin compared the height of the astronaut exit hatches. Starship's exit is 126 feet off the ground, and conceptually uses an elevator to bring astronauts to the surface, while the Blue Origin lander is 32 feet off the ground and requires crew drop down a long ladder. One comparison that Blue Origin did not make was in regard to cost. NASA cited cost as a major factor in its decision to only select one winner under the Human Landing System, due to Congress granting the agency a fraction of its requested budget for the program. SpaceX bid $2.9 billion, while Blue Origin was roughly double at $5.99 billion.
In the first round of Human Landing System contracts, NASA handed out nearly $1 billion in concept development awards – with SpaceX receiving $135 million, Dynetics getting $253 million, and Blue Origin receiving $579 million.A mockup of the crew lander vehicle at NASA's Johnson Space Center in August 2020.
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