Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
NASA has made some bad decisions throughout its history, but what they recently did might be their worst one yet. For anyone who missed it, NASA decided to reopen the Moon-landing contract that SpaceX’s Starship had already won. In simple terms, they took the job away from the most advanced rocket ever built and said they want to “let other companies compete again,” including Blue Origin.
Naturally, Musk and pretty much everyone who follows the space industry is furious. SpaceX earned that contract fair and square, and they’ve been working nonstop to deliver the Starship lunar lander.
NASA says they’re just “exploring options,” but when the only option that’s actually making progress is SpaceX, the whole thing feels like a huge step backward. Blue Origin still hasn’t reached orbit, their lander design is years behind, and their entire system depends on technologies they haven’t even tested yet. And yet NASA is treating them like a realistic backup to SpaceX, which has already flown 11 Starship test flights and revealed the next-generation version.
But finally, NASA is doing one thing that might make this decision slightly less disastrous. Before we go any deeper, make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates like this.
NASA has made some bad decisions throughout its history, but what they recently did might be their worst one yet. For anyone who missed it, NASA decided to reopen the Moon-landing contract that SpaceX’s Starship had already won. In simple terms, they took the job away from the most advanced rocket ever built and said they want to “let other companies compete again,” including Blue Origin.
Naturally, Musk and pretty much everyone who follows the space industry is furious. SpaceX earned that contract fair and square, and they’ve been working nonstop to deliver the Starship lunar lander.
NASA says they’re just “exploring options,” but when the only option that’s actually making progress is SpaceX, the whole thing feels like a huge step backward. Blue Origin still hasn’t reached orbit, their lander design is years behind, and their entire system depends on technologies they haven’t even tested yet. And yet NASA is treating them like a realistic backup to SpaceX, which has already flown 11 Starship test flights and revealed the next-generation version.
But finally, NASA is doing one thing that might make this decision slightly less disastrous. Before we go any deeper, make sure to subscribe to our channel for more updates like this.
