Bezos Offers to Pay NASA $2 Billion for Moon Mission

Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the U.S. space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the moon, The Guardian reports.

Nasa in April awarded SpaceX, owned by rival billionaire Elon Musk, a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2024, rejecting bids from Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics.