{"id":57006,"date":"2021-07-30T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cnbc-us-government-denies-blue-origins-protest-of-spacex-lunar-lander-award\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:42:43","slug":"cnbc-us-government-denies-blue-origins-protest-of-spacex-lunar-lander-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cnbc-us-government-denies-blue-origins-protest-of-spacex-lunar-lander-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CNBC: US Government Denies Blue Origin\u2019s Protest of SpaceX Lunar Lander Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Government Accountability Office<\/strong> on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with&nbsp;Jeff Bezos&nbsp;that <strong>NASA<\/strong> wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to&nbsp;Elon Musk\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>SpaceX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints were filed by Jeff Bezos\u2019 <strong>Blue Origin<\/strong> and <strong>Leidos<\/strong>\u2019 subsidiary <strong>Dynetics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA did not violate procurement law or regulation when it decided to make only one award \u2026 the evaluation of all three proposals was reasonable, and consistent with applicable procurement law, regulation, and the announcement\u2019s terms,\u201d GAO managing associate general counsel Kenneth Patton wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Read more from CNBC&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with&nbsp;Jeff Bezos&nbsp;that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to&nbsp;Elon Musk\u2019s&nbsp;SpaceX. The complaints were filed by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin and Leidos\u2019 subsidiary Dynetics. \u201cNASA did not violate procurement law or regulation when it decided to make only one award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57007,"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-57006","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\/57006"}],"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=57006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}