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by barcoder 1685 days ago
“ "We've lost nearly seven months in litigation and that likely has pushed the first human landing likely to no earlier than 2025," Nelson said, pinning the delay in NASA's return to the Moon firmly on Blue Origin and its lawyers. During the legal process, NASA was forbidden from working or even talking with SpaceX … “

Boggles the mind that Blue Origin would rather put their money into legal battles than making their space flight tech better.

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What I'm learning from this is that anything Jeff Bezos has his hand in is litigious. Amazon did the same thing with the JEDI contract for federal government cloud hosting when they lost the bid.
The guy earns in a month a yearly Nasa budget so naturally he will spend money on legal battles so they will pay me to do their job.

Just fuck off, NASA is already crippled by politics and now has to worry about billionaires and their ego trips so big they need outer space to contain it.