NASA is free to begin moving ahead with its plan to work with SpaceX on sending Elon Musk’s Starship to the moon , much to …
NASA is free to begin moving ahead with its plan to work with SpaceX on sending Elon Musk’s Starship to the moon, much to the chagrin of Blue Origin, the competing space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. On Thursday, the US Court of Federal Claims dismissed a lawsuit brought against NASA by Blue Origin. The company was challenging the space agency’s decision to award SpaceX the sole contract to build a human landing system for NASA’s Artemis program. The full opinion by Judge Richard Hertling explaining his decision hasn’t yet been publicly released. The lawsuit was originally filed under seal to protect trade secrets and later released in redacted form. The ruling will go through the same process, in which the parties involved propose redactions before it’s made public.
