| Once Bezos got into space because he wanted to improve space travel for humanity, now he is just holding it back because of his pride. His company simply can't do what he claims it can do. They have proven nothing. They have achieved nothing and take on ever greater challenges. The have spent 10 or more years for a very simple suborbital craft that is still not flying regularly and claim to be able to build a moon lander in a few years. They have committed to making a complex engine, BE-4 that is 4 years late and the version they are still working on is not anywhere close to the engine the initially announced. They are building a gigantic rocket, New Glenn, that includes a new engine, BE-3U. This is claimed to be a version of the BE-3 but is totally different. Initially this rocket was also claimed to have vacuum version of BE-4 that has since been dropped. This rocket is already 4 years late and is very not even sure to fly in 2023. They are also working on a new different reusable upper stage for the New Glenn (and likely another new engine to go with it). This is supposed to be reusable as well. They are also claiming to work on an even bigger rocket. For the moon lander they didn't just propose a complex lander (that requires another new engine, BE-7), but also claimed to be the leader of a team integrating immensely complex parts from old space contractors, despite them not having any history of being a integrator of complex systems. They are also have a ISRU division that works on resource production on the moon. He has 4000 people working for Blue and basically no income. The company literally just burns Amazon stocks and has been for 20 years. There is no prospect what so ever that this can change in the next 5 years. So literally NASA would commit to basically having the whole HLS project be simply paid for by Bezos with a company that has no possibility to survive without private good will. They existed for 20 years and their only achievement is a single human suborbital flight. Yet they have the gaul to claim that NASA made a mistake selecting SpaceX who in the same time has achieved literally 100-500x more then them with less money. P.S: SpaceX also sued NASA but GAO actually sided with them. SpaceX also sued Air Force and won that too. SpaceX opened space for competition and Blue abuses that freedom to delay every program. |