Jeff Bezos has offered to cover $2bn (£1.4bn) of Nasa costs in order to be reconsidered for a key contract to build a Moon landing vehicle.
In April, the space agency awarded the $2.9bn contract to Elon Musk, rejecting a bid from Bezos' company Blue Origin.
The award is for building the landing system that will carry astronauts down to the lunar surface as early as 2024.
NASA could only award the contract to one company, not two as expected because of a funding shortfall.
The space agency had received only $850m of the $3.3bn it requested from Congress to build the Moon lander.
No comments:
Post a Comment