{"id":94009,"date":"2025-10-21T04:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:51:06","slug":"nasa-opens-spacex-moon-lander-contract-to-rival-bids-after-starship-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94009\/","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":94010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2305,8971,605,61,60,3916,2704,6185,91,22584,247,2306,80,425],"class_list":["post-94009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artemis","tag-blue-origin","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-rockets","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-technology","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}