{"id":56343,"date":"2021-11-04T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-plans-no-further-legal-action-after-losing-nasa-lunar-lander-appeal\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:40:22","slug":"blue-origin-plans-no-further-legal-action-after-losing-nasa-lunar-lander-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-plans-no-further-legal-action-after-losing-nasa-lunar-lander-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Plans No Further Legal Action After Losing NASA Lunar Lander Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A judge in the <b>U.S. Court of Federal Claims<\/b> denied <b>Blue Origin<\/b>\u2019s request for judgement in a lawsuit over <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> receiving <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s sole lunar lander award on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This uphold\u2019s NASA\u2019s selection of SpaceX in April 2021 for a firm-fixed price, $2.89 billion contract to send astronauts to the Moon on the Starship rocket and to develop the first commercial human lunar lander.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin fought the decision with the <b>Government Accountability Office<\/b> (GAO), and then with the lawsuit in the Federal Claims Court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos tweeted about the ruling, implying that Blue Origin will not pursue further action. \u201cNot the decision we wanted, but we respect the court\u2019s judgment, and wish full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA said in a statement that the agency will resume work with SpaceX \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d NASA emphasized in its statement that there will be additional opportunities for Artemis contracts, including a call in 2022 to the U.S. industry for recurring crewed lunar landing services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied Blue Origin\u2019s request for judgement in a lawsuit over SpaceX receiving NASA\u2019s sole lunar lander award on Thursday.&nbsp; This uphold\u2019s NASA\u2019s selection of SpaceX in April 2021 for a firm-fixed price, $2.89 billion contract to send astronauts to the Moon on the Starship rocket and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}