{"id":27498,"date":"2021-08-17T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27498"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:02:35","slug":"bezos-sues-nasa-over-its-deal-with-elon-musks-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/17\/bezos-sues-nasa-over-its-deal-with-elon-musks-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos sues Nasa over its deal with Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jeff Bezos&#8217;s space firm Blue Origin is suing Nasa over a decision to award a $2.9bn (\u00a32.1bn) lunar lander contract to Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The former Amazon boss&#8217;s firm said there were &#8220;fundamental issues&#8221; with the deal, calling it unfair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The row stems from a decision in April to hand the deal to one company, not two as expected, because of a funding shortfall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nasa is yet to comment, but it has the backing of a federal watchdog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos&rsquo;s space firm Blue Origin is suing Nasa over a decision to award a $2.9bn (&pound;2.1bn) lunar lander contract to Elon Musk&rsquo;s SpaceX. The former Amazon boss&rsquo;s firm said there were &ldquo;fundamental issues&rdquo; with the deal, calling it unfair. The row stems from a decision in April to hand the deal to one company, not two as expected, because of a funding shortfall. Nasa is yet to comment, but it has the backing of a federal watchdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27500,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions\/27500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}