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So why did SpaceX get a lunar lander contract before Blue Origin?

• mrguyorama 3y ago
  SpaceX has more success in the space game? Blue Origin is pretty sad for the money they have. It's either a piss poor engineering org or primarily a toy for Bezos.
• cubefox 3y ago
  Their Artemis 3 proposal had a much lower price than the one by Blue Origin. SpaceX 2.8 billion, BO something like 8 billion if I remember correctly. SpaceX was also much more ambitious and forward looking, but I'm not sure whether NASA saw this as positive or negative.
• panick21_ 3y ago
  Because their bid was better. But now BlueOrigin gets more money for a significantly worse bid. The problem I am point out here is that NASA defines a narrow set of specification and don't value anything beyond those specifications. NASA is not optimizing for the most useful money spend for the next 20 years. They define narrow specification for short term operations and only value that. So now we have something that is incredibly revolutionary and could carry humanity all over the solar system getting less money then a hacked together solution from 3 contractors who have proven to perform extremely badly on such contracts getting more money.