Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract
Jeff Bezos has offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts on the moon. This comes after NASA rejected bids from Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics in April, awarding a $2.9 billion contract to rival billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX. Blue Origin had partnered with Lockheed Martin Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp and Draper in the bid, but the space agency cited its own funding shortfalls, SpaceX's proven record of orbital missions and other factors in its decision to go with "what's the best value to the government."0
