GAO denies protests, SpaceX going to the Moon!!!

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At this point, SpaceX's Moon landing is as official as it can get. The only thing left is building it.

Statement on Blue Origin-Dynetics Decision | U.S. GAO

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Blue Origin statement:

“We stand firm in our belief that there were fundamental issues with NASA’s decision, but the GAO wasn’t able to address them due to their limited jurisdiction. We’ll continue to advocate for two immediate providers..."https://t.co/uuXYYw0PCr pic.twitter.com/y71lWuA8Bn

— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) July 30, 2021

Why does Blue Origin management suck so much? New Glenn is awesome and the massive scale of their work at the cape is awesome. Yet this one element of the company sabotages all good will they should be generating.

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NASA Statement on GAO Ruling Regarding Human Landing System Protest | NASA

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This is an incredible document. Goes into lots of details and very directly calls Blue Origin and Dynetics stupid: https://www.gao.gov/assets/b-419783.pdf


Referring to Dynetic's proposal being too heavy:

"In order to enable a rocket to lift off from a launch pad, the action or thrust of the rocket must be greater than the mass of the rocket it is lifting. See "Rocket Principles," NASA, available at https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/TRCRocket/rocket\_principles.html (last visited July 25, 2021)."