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
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.