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Blue Origin referred to NASA's decision to grant the $2.9 billion lunar contract exclusively to SpaceX as 'inconsistent and unfair' in a separate statement.

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The space race competition heated up after NASA awarded Musk's SpaceX with the sole contract to send Americans to the moon over Bezos' Blue Origin.

The newly-minted space explorer is willing to cover $2 billion in fees for NASA's Human Landing System program.