No , Jeff Bezos should not just get million of dollar from NASA because he reckon he deserves it , Bernie Sanders says . After Blue Origin made a stink over losing out to SpaceX on an sole $ 2.9 billion NASA declaration for a moon landing mission ( due , NASA said , to limited backing ) , Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell — from Amazon ’s home state of Washington — tacked on$10 billion for NASA into the Endless Frontier Act , a notice that allocates fund to behave research in technical innovation and place exploration . Presumably , Blue Origin will get a lump of this , since Cantwell ’s amendment specifically put forward that NASA will subsidise “ intention , development , testing , and valuation for not fewerthan 2 entities ” for the Human Landing System Program . ( Both Blue Origin and Dynetics had contend for the contract . )
As the Verge ’s Joey Roulette first reported , Sanders proposedanother amendmenton Monday , specifically “ to eliminate the multi - billion Bezos Bailout . ”
As told by theWashington Post , Blue Origin ’s whining and lobbying ramp up the Musk - Bezos feud . In April , Elon Muskrepliedto a New York Times story on Bezos ’s objection with the tweet : “ Ca n’t get it up ( to orbit ) lol . ” ( Flirty . )
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Ina flyer , SpaceX pronounce the Cantwell amendment “ undermines the Union government procural process , rewards Jeff Bezos with a $ 10 billion sole - seed deal - out , and will throw NASA ’s Artemis course of study into age of judicial proceeding . ” It adds that Blue Origin “ has not bring out a single arugula or spacecraft up to of reach orbit . ”
In 2011 , Blue Origin secured $ 22 million from NASA , and in 2020,$579 millionfrom NASA to formulate a lunar lander . It also won andlosta $ 500 million Air Force contract to SpaceX.
Blue Origin came back with itsown fliersubtitled “ What is Elon Musk afraid of … a little competition ? ” with itemized “ lies ” in SpaceX ’s flier . Its bottom line : “ Elon Musk repeatedly talks about the value of rival , but when it comes to NASA ’s Human Landing System ( HLS ) program , he wants it all to himself . ”
Blue Origin is correct that butt on out all rivalry with corporate muscle is big . Relatedly , the Washington , DC , lawyer worldwide hasjust announcedthat he ’s engage an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for keep third - political party vender from offering lower prices on other sites .
Amazon has bilked political science funding for years . The company isavoiding payingthe government billions of dollar mark in taxes while invite hundreds of zillion in taxation break of serve and one thousand million of dollarsin subsidy .
Sanders has alsomade the pointthat at the bit we might want to prioritize the planet on which the rest of us plan to live full - prison term .
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