Bezos Offers To Personally Pay NASA $2 Billion For Launch Privileges 

Jeff Bezos offered to close NASA’s $2 billion Human Landing System budget shortfall if Blue Origin is permitted to help with the Artemis lunar program.

In April, NASA chose SpaceX as the sole recipient of a $2.89 billion contract to develop a crewed vessel that will carry astronauts to the surface of the moon. Bezos told NASA administrator Bill Nelson that his agency ought to embrace a spirit of competition by affording an opportunity to the flight system created by Blue Origin’s National Team.