Bezos Slams Musk and SpaceX With Infographic, Musk Gets Final Word With Not-So-Subtle TweetThe space race competition heated up after NASA awarded Musk's SpaceX with the sole contract to send Americans to the moon over Bezos' Blue Origin.

Jeff Bezos may have beat fellow billionaire Elon Musk to space, but the battle between the two longstanding rivals continues after Bezos took a hit at Musk on the Blue Origin website this week.

It all began on July 30 when Blue Origin, Bezos' space-exploration company, wasdenieda protest against the U.S. Government Accountability Office after NASA awarded Musk's space-exploration company, SpaceX, a $2.9 billion contract that would allow SpaceX to be the only company permitted to build vehicles that would let astronauts land on the moon.

"We'll continue to advocate for two immediate providers as we believe it is the right solution," Blue Origin said in astatementat the time. "The Human Landing System program needs to have competition now instead of later – that's the best solution for NASA and the best solution for our country."

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Yesterday, Bezos and Blue Origin doubled down in protest against NASA's decision by posting a strongly worded infographic on the company'swebsite.

Under the HLS National Team (a group including Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper that are aiming to develop a Human Landing System to get Americans back on the moon) section of the Blue Origin website, theinfographiccalls SpaceX's lunar starship "immensely complex" and "high risk" in big, bold orange letters.

"There are an unprecedented number of technologies, developments, and operations that have never been done before for [SpaceX's] Starship to land on the Moon," the graphicreads. "This includes developing Super Heavy - not only the largest launch vehicle stage ever produced, but one that has to be reusable - and Starship, the first ever reusable second stage."

图形然后继续谈论风险in making sure both of those systems can cohesively work together while also noting that the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas (where Starship would launch from) has never successfully completed an orbital launch.

"For just a single Starship lunar landing, this all must be done more than 10 times flawlessly," the notesaysin conclusion.

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Below the infographic is a link to astatementput out by Blue Origin aptly titled "NASA's Decision to Eliminate Competition from the Human Landing System Wrong for America" in which Blue Origin accuses NASA of a "flawed acquisition" of SpaceX and running an "inconsistent and unfair competition."

Though Musk has not directly fired back at Bezos, he seems to have made his commentary clear per a tweet he posted in response to a video of him finding out he had won the grant from NASA.

Just want to say thanks to those in government who fight hard for the right thing to happen, despite extreme pressure to do otherwise.

Therein lies the core goodness of the American state.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)August 4, 2021

"I do love NASA, always have," Musk wrote in his first tweet of a two-tweet thread.

He continued: "Just want to say thanks to those in government who fight hard for the right thing to happen, despite extreme pressure to do otherwise. Therein lies the core goodness of the American state."

NASA and SpaceX are currentlyaimingto get astronauts to the moon by 2024.

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