Bernie Sanders Working to Block Jeff Bezos From NASA Moon Contract

Vermont senator is trying to make sure that $10 billion of taxpayers' money isn't given to Blue Origin CEO and Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos.

The second richest man in the world is getting a handout. It's fair competition in the agency's efforts to return humans to the Moon for the first time in 40 years.

Here is a primer on how we got to today. Last year, NASA awarded a contract to develop a lunar lander to SpaceX.

Blue Origin sued NASA last August, claiming it was being unfairly locked out of the process.

NASA gave Blue Origin one more chance to win a contract to develop a lunar lander last week. The agency said that the company had won a second contract for a trip to the moon.

With a resolution meant to prevent the allocation of an additional $10 billion, the senator wants to get in the way of Bezos securing taxpayer money. According to the resolution, the measure is a rescue for Jeff Bezos so that his company Blue Origin can launch a rocket ship to the moon.

If Mr. Bezos goes to the Moon, it will be good for him. He became richer during the epidemic. He is the second richest person in America.

At the time, he argued that he should use his own money.

That's ironic, of course, because Sanders has been an opponent of Musk. The two are bedfellows in opposing Bezos.

It is worth noting that not everyone sees NASA's change of heart as a rescue.

The association of spaceflight with divisive individuals is being used to drive policy issues, according to a senior space policy adviser at The Planetary Society.

The Artemis program is a private-public partnership of epic proportions in the space industry that stands a good chance of getting the first astronauts to land on the lunar surface in almost 50 years.

It is also very expensive. Even with pockets as deep as Bezos, space companies are looking for funds from US taxpayers, a controversial move given the billionaire's existing wealth.

It's been reported that Sanders looks to shoot down Bezos.

An employee of NASA says that the Starship is about to change everything.

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