Blue Origin legal tactics partly to blame for NASA moon landing delay

“ "We've lost nearly seven months in litigation and that likely has pushed the first human landing likely to no earlier than 2025," Nelson said, pinning the delay in NASA's return to the Moon firmly on Blue Origin and its lawyers. During the legal process, NASA was forbidden from working or even talking with SpaceX … “

Boggles the mind that Blue Origin would rather put their money into legal battles than making their space flight tech better.

Nice excuse by NASA for their horrible performance with SLS/Orion. Two system that should have been channeled a decade ago.

These systems are holding the NASA budget and the moon architecture hostage. NASA is not free to come up with good architectures because they have to use these sub-optimal tools.

Thanks to SpaceX, Starship development went forward, so no delay there.

The thing that was delayed is NASA and SpaceX working together on the interior of the Starship and the exact mission profiles NASA wants.

It really bothers me to defend Blue Origin but they have nothing to do with the delay of Artemis II until 2024. Given that Boeing can only build one SLS per year, Artemis III, the landing, is necessarily pushed to 2025.

Blue Origin is just the scapegoat in this case. That's ok, they deserve it.