Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to NASA

Riding the wave of its first manned flight into suborbital space, Blue Origin reiterated that it wanted a contract for a NASA lunar lander and stressed that it is willing to invest a lot of its money in the effort. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, who was on the suborbital flight of the New Shepard spacecraft on July 20, wrote an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson on July 26. The missive had the prerogative of asking the agency to award another manned lander contract for its lunar program named Artemis and stated that Blue Origin is willing to cover up to $ 2 billion in development and testing costs. br>
Bezos' letter, which was posted on the Blue Origin website and you can read at this link, comes three months after Blue Origin and Dynetics lost in the final round of the tender against SpaceX, which won a $ 2.9 billion contract to develop its Starship spacecraft. Both Dynetics and Blue Origin filed protests with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in late April, citing what they considered flaws in the procurement process, the investigation will then be conducted in August.

“Instead to invest in two competing lunar landers as originally planned, the agency has chosen to bestow a multi-year, multi-billion dollar lead on SpaceX, ”Bezos wrote in the letter.

He added that the human landing system proposed by the da Blue Origin and Dynetics can fly numerous vehicles, reducing the overall risk to the human landing project, and that NASA has recognized as a positive thing.

“Without competition, in the short term of the contract, NASA will find itself with limited options in an effort to negotiate missed deadlines, design changes and cost overruns,” Bezos wrote of SpaceX's selection.