Blue Origin Loses Protest of SpaceX’s Lunar Landing Contract
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2018.
Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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SpaceX is cleared to perform a nearly $3 billion NASA contract to develop technology to land people on the moon after the U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed Blue Origin Federation LLC’s protest Thursday.
“NASA will resume work with SpaceX” under the contract “as soon as possible,” the agency said in a news release.