{"id":229141,"date":"2025-10-21T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:07","slug":"nasa-opens-spacex-moon-lander-contract-to-rival-bids-after-starship-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229141\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA opens SpaceX moon-lander contract to rival bids after Starship delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>NASA said Monday it was opening the marquee U.S. moon landing contract to other bidders because Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has experienced mounting delays with its Starship lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p>The move paves the way for rivals such as Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin to snatch a high-profile mission to land the first astronauts on the moon in half a century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in the process of opening that contract up. I think we&#8217;ll see companies like Blue get involved, and maybe others,&#8221; the U.S. space agency&#8217;s acting chief Sean Duffy, who also serves as U.S. Transportation Secretary, told Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 NASA said Monday it was opening the marquee U.S. moon landing contract to other bidders because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3105,64,63,34986,3120,11917,2725,4935,131,21938,285,5437,105,1785],"class_list":{"0":"post-229141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-blue-origin","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-jeff-bezos","14":"tag-mars","15":"tag-moon","16":"tag-nasa","17":"tag-rockets","18":"tag-space","19":"tag-spacex","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}