Jeff Bezos has offered NASA up to $2 billion to keep his rocket company Blue Origin in competition with SpaceX owned by Elon Musk as he seems afraid of losing the space race.
In an open letter to NASA, the world’s wealthiest man offered the whopping sum of $2billion to cover up all funding shortfall in US moon-landing mission due in 2024.
But he hopes reconsideration of contract regarding the construction of a spacecraft that will fly the astronauts to the moon.
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NASA had announced earlier it might choose at least two private firms for building the moon-lander under the Artemis program launched by the US government in 2017.
In April, the space agency preferred SpaceX and snubbed Blue Origin for the $2.9 billion contract for building the spacecraft that will ferry the astronauts to the earth’s natural satellite by 2024.
Bezos claimed awarding the contract to SpaceX will pose a threat to the US’s moon mission and delay it too.
Dynetics company also protested NASA’s decision of picking only one firm for rocket-construction for the Artemis program.