"If lobbying and lawyers could send you to space, Bezos would already be on Pluto."
Elon Musk's recent tweet against his competitor speaks volumes about the acrimony between the two crazy space entrepreneurs.
Jeff Bezos' company, Blue Origin, announced Monday evening that it had filed a complaint in a US federal court against NASA.
The multibillionaire accuses the federal agency of having retained, last April, only one winner in its call for tenders for a manned moon landing system, in this case SpaceX, the firm of Elon Musk.
This $ 2.9 billion contract is part of the Artemis program, which is to send Americans to the moon as early as 2024 - including a first woman.
A very tight schedule.
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The US space agency confirmed Monday that it had been notified of the complaint, and that officials were
"currently studying the details
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Alas, Blue Origin's complaint could destroy any chance of holding the goal
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