US senator proposes $10BN for NASA to include Bezos’s Blue Origin
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United States Senator Maria Cantwell is seeking to nudge NASA to rethink its decision to choose only Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build the lunar lander for its Artemis moon programme.
Senator Maria Cantwell is seeking to nudge NASA to reconsider its decision to reject Amazon Inc. founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space venture for the lunar landing program. Cantwell, a Democrat who represents Amazon’s home state of Washington, plans to add an amendment to a package of legislation aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness with China that would authorize $10 billion for NASA through 2026 to carry out the program, allowing other companies to take part. “The Administrator shall maintain competitiveness within the human landing system program by funding design, development, testing, and evaluation for not fewer than two entities,” according to a draft of the amendment obtained by Bloomberg News.More Related News