Business magnate, Jeff Bezos would be competing for a very important contract to build a vehicle that can land on the moon. In the bid to win the contract, BBC reports that he has offered to cover the sum of $2bn (N823,180,000,000) costs of the project for NASA.
It should be noted that earlier in the year in April, the agency gave the work to Elon Musk while it rejected the bid made by Bezos’ company, Blue Origin. The contract is meant to build a landing system that will take astronauts to the lunar surface of the moon as soon as 2024. Due to the funding problem NASA has been experiencing, it can only give the contract to just one company. Out of the $3.3bn (N1,358,247,000,000) needed. The Congress only sent $850m (N349,851,500,000).
Elon Musk’s SpaceX record of performing orbital missions is a big factor that got them the contract in the first place. In his letter, the richest man in the world also tried to market Blue Origin’s use of hydrogen fuel, a thing NASA had always loved. Another thing worthy of note is that when Blue Origin earlier lost the contract, it made a protest movement to challenge the way the bidding was handled.