{"id":128316,"date":"2021-09-29T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/elon-musk-fires-shot-at-jeff-bezos-you-cant-sue-your-way-to-orbit"},"modified":"2021-09-29T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:23:19","slug":"elon-musk-fires-shot-at-jeff-bezos-you-cant-sue-your-way-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/elon-musk-fires-shot-at-jeff-bezos-you-cant-sue-your-way-to-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk fires shot at Jeff Bezos, \u2018you can\u2019t sue your way to orbit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-fires-shot-at-jeff-bezos-you-cant-sue-your-way-to-orbit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree with Elon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elon Musk repeated prior criticisms of fellow billionaire space mogul Jeff Bezos, as their respective companies continue to battle in federal court and in front of regulators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve expressed my thoughts on that front \u2014 I think he should put more of his energy into getting to orbit, [rather] than lawsuits,\u201d Musk said Tuesday at the CodeCon 2021 conference in Beverly Hills, California. \u201cYou cannot sue your way to the moon, no matter how good your lawyers are,\u201d Musk added. Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin is suing SpaceX, by way of NASA, in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims over a $2.9 billion astronaut lunar lander contract the agency awarded Musk\u2019s company earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin went on a public relations offensive in August after the Government Accountability Office shot down the company\u2019s protest, with Bezos\u2019 venture calling SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket an \u201cimmensely complex &amp; high risk\u201d way to deliver NASA astronauts to the moon. In April, NASA chose SpaceX and its Starship concept to provide the vehicle that\u2019ll carry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon as soon as 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Elon. Elon Musk repeated prior criticisms of fellow billionaire space mogul Jeff Bezos, as their respective companies continue to battle in federal court and in front of regulators. \u201cI think I\u2019ve expressed my thoughts on that front \u2014 I think he should put more of his energy into getting to orbit, [rather] [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,1496,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-law","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}