Spacex Founder Ilon Mask answered the owner of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezosu, outstanding to send people to the moon with a competitor’s company. He wrote about it in twitter .
So Mask reacted to the Blue Origin solution to protest SPACEX selection as a company that will send a person to the Moon as part of the Artemis program in 2024.
“can not climb (in orbit), lol,” wrote mask.
On April 27, The New York Times reported that Jeff Bezeka Blue Origin served a protest to the US Accounts Chamber, trying to challenge the provision of SPACEX contract worth 2.9 billion dollars. The company believes that NASA belongs to it biased, since the agency did not adopt the change in the requirements for the candidate.
Earlier in April, Ilona Spacex will send astronauts to the moon. The organization won the appropriate contract from NASA. Jeff Beza Blue Origin also participated in the competition together with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, as well as Dynetics.
In May 2020, NASA presented the International Artemis Agreement (Artemis Accords), which describes the international rules for the development of the moon and mining on its territory. For example, according to ten new principles specified in the Agreement, the concept of “safe zones” around future lunar bases is now introduced. In addition, NASA offers a public exchange of scientific data obtained, as well as the registration of spacecraft on the moon.