tl;dr - NASA has agreed to delay work on their lunar lander, again, due to the worlds richest welfare queen filing yet another lawsuit because he couldn't get his way.
SpaceX had viable technology, was years ahead of their competition, has been sending shit into space for years. So, NASA, with a mandate from congress, awarded them one of what was supposed to be 3 contracts to build a competitive and fair priced program to get us back to the moon. That budget from congress got cut and no other competitor was even close to having a working design, let alone building a rocket, so NASA did not award anymore contracts. They are working on that limited budget and a timeline now.
Blue Iv...I mean, Origin, the bald cunt's penis enhancement project, (which is only something that exists so he can swing around at people for the simple reason that he can from being so rich) barely made their own launch window to send him and several other privileged people into low orbit. This was a publicity stunt and there is no second rocket to launch. Even Virgin Galactic is bailing on most of their plans. They have no working prototype, they have no viable plans, they are not even on the same playing field as India 10 years ago when it comes to their rocket program. There was no way in hell they should or could ever compete or complete for this Lunar Program.
But that doesn't mean the bald cunt is going to celebrate the achievements of others and admit defeat. No. He has the ability to waste money and delay the SpaceX/NASA project until it runs afoul of its own deadlines.
receipts, plural because no one article can tell you what is going on, what has happened, or what the petition to the court on behalf of Blue Origin says: https://archive.is/UFZ1O https://archive.is/1gObh
The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Monday, is sealed, but according to another filing, it 'challenges NASA´s unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals.' - Daily Mail
It is pretty lame to stop progress over a guy who can shoot a rocket up in a parabola versus a company who can consistently launch into orbit and rendezvous with other craft, both things that are worlds more complicated.
But it is Bezos after all, he would hold up progress with lawsuits just because he can. He's a self-absorbed asshole.
...can we send all of them? Then leave them there?
Agreed.
have any of you guys seen the new skit making fun of him and the billionaire space race?
If it stalls out for a few generations it will die forever, for two reasons. The powers that be do not want to repeat the America mistake again. It took around 3 months to travel from Europe to America, and it takes 3 months to 2 years to get to Mars. They will never allow a people to develop a Mars colony because it is too far away to exercise their will on. Even communication takes 20 minutes (40 minutes round trip) at opposition, long enough to take out communication. If a Martian colony rebels, they will not be able to get their loyal troops to mars fast enough.
The other reason is woke will not die, at least not without massive violence and genocide, and that isn't happening. Once they finish their takeover, that's it, forever. There is no America to come to America's aid. Japan cannot do it, China could, but that cure is worse than the disease, and every other nation is more woke (or at least begs for woke gibmedats) than America. There is nothing left after woke wins.
The only hope is to race wokeness to mars, try to get their before NASA gets completely converged, and try to setup an independent colony as fast as possible. There is a good chance that wokeness cannot survive on mars, because space is WAY harsher of an environment than the left coast. Stupidity will die in space, a people will not tolerate stupid putting them at risk.
That's not possible anymore, because China is gonna get there before the US if they stall progress. The US is still in front, but if they stop for even a few years, they'll get left behind..
NASA isn't doing the work. SpaceX is.
Bozos can sue as much as he wants, it's not gonna get SpaceX to put their tools down.
NASA is providing funding and part of the support. They maybe cucked, but there is still some useful intelligence. It is, ostensibly, their project. SpaceX can continue the work, but NASA can't contribute or pay for it.
SpaceX has already made it very clear they neither care about nor need funding from NASA to develop superheavy. They are already convinced that there will be a market for the capacity they're building, and that the initial bid for the HLS is (in their eyes) a drop in the bucket compared to a potential lunar commercial cargo service contract AFTER the HLS contract.
NASA already paid out for the first milestone the day the GAO report dropped. They probably figured something like this was gonna happen. Even if SpaceX makes the next milestone before Nov. 1, the payment isn't going to be too delayed.
This is just Bezos doing the same thing to NASA that he did to the DOD when Amazon was trying to get the JEDI contract. Expect more lawsuits when this one fails.
It wasn't even low orbit. I wouldn't even classify it as space flight - the Karman line is fairly arbitrary, what distinguishes space flight from ordinary ballistics is whether you've got enough velocity to overshoot the Earth on your way back down.
So what you're saying is that cherry bombs under a trashcan would have had a better chance at reaching the moon?
I wouldn't go that far, but if Blue Origin's New Shepard is a spacecraft, so is the V2 ballistic missile.
Well, it did send some people to the heavens...
*Whiny Faggot Origin
I thought it was court ordered. A stay or an injunction, I don’t know the terminology.
In the article, it was agreed to stay to resolve the lawsuit within 2 months to prevent further delays.
Eh just because Bezos is bad doesn't make SpaceX good.
They've done their share of crap too like outgassing capsules damaging equipment on the space station, consumer-grade electronics in space crossing their fingers there's no cosmic ray hits, not even painting their thousands of satellites black until shamed into it.
Sounds like we have a Musk fanboy/twink.
Oh my god, AOC, you're just so smart, witty and insightful. How can anyone doubt your intelligence and...
Oh, wait, you're not AOC. But you could understand how I made the mistake since you're both supremely fucking retarded with the intellect of a spoiled 5 year-old.
Hahahahaha because you're a musk fanboy Im AOC. Ok, makes sense.
And this is why people perceive you as a retarded child.
Brainless idiots maybe.
Dont you have to get back to eating out elons ass?
Honey, I know you're more than a little slow, but that's nasty and extremely unsanitary. Fingering, maybe, but no mouth goes near the ass. It's just déclassé.