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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great article about NASA and Blue Origin.

Sums up why everyone hates Bezos.  If he were just a billionaire science geek, I would understand his space quest.  But he feels the need to bilk the Treasury along the way.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22689729/blue-origin-moon-lunar-lander-price-nasa-hls-foia

[i]Backed by the world’s richest man, Blue Origin indicated in its protest that the $5.9 billion price — nearly double SpaceX’s proposal — was partially based on an assumption that NASA would have more than enough money from Congress to pay for the proposal, even as Congress had been indicating a month before Blue Origin submitted its proposal last December that it wouldn’t give NASA all the funding it said it needed. [/i]

NASA's perfect response: 
[i]Blue Origin “made an assumption about the Agency’s HLS budget, built its proposal with this figure in mind, and also separately made a calculated bet that if NASA could not afford Blue Origin’s initially-proposed price, the Agency would select Blue Origin for award and engage in post-selection negotiations to allow Blue Origin to lower its price. All of these assumptions were incorrect,” the four NASA attorneys wrote in the so-called Agency Report, dated May 26th.[/i][/quote]

And yet, that's more respectable than Musk's NASA shenanigans.

Think about it.  [/quote]

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