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  BY  BY  RAGHU GARIKIPATI   JULY  3, 2021 2:00 PM EST J eff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed a protest against NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion award to develop a human-lander system to return astronauts to the moon. Blue Origin called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office to stay NASA’s  deal  with SpaceX and correct “errors” in the procurement process, according to the protest. Absent those problems, Blue Origin claimed that NASA would also have selected its proposal, which was submitted by a team that included Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Draper, an engineering and avionics firm. “NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute,” Blue Origin said Monday in a statement accompanying the challenge to NASA’s decision. “Their decision eliminates opportunities for competition, significantly narrows the supply base, and not only delay...

The earnings figures given with each blogger are best-available estimates of annual earnings from Owler, given in U.S. dollars. Top 10 highest-earning bloggers HuffPost :  $500 million per year Engadget :  $47.5 million per year Moz :  $44.9 million per year PerezHilton :  $41.3 million per year Copyblogger :  $33.1 million per year Mashable :  $30 million per year TechCrunch :  $22.5 million per year Envato Tuts+ :  $10 million per year Smashing Magazine :  $5.2 million per year Gizmodo :  $4.8 million per year 1. HuffPost (founded by Arianna Huffington):  $143.1 million Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post ( rebranded to HuffPost in 2017 ), built her business up from a current affairs commentary blog to a full-blown media empire between 2005 and 2011, when The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL for $315 million. Huffington stayed on as Editor-in-Chief at The Huffington Post until 2016, when she moved on to her curre...

10 things you need to know about SpaceX 1. Who is Elon Musk and why is he building rockets? 2. What Has SpaceX Done That Other Companies Haven’t? 3. Are SpaceX Rockets Special? 4. How Close Is SpaceX To Flying A Crew? 5. Where is SpaceX’s Mission Control? 6. What Is The Dragon Spacecraft Like? 7. Is SpaceX Profitable? 8. Why Are Rockets Still So Failure Prone Despite Decades of Production? 9. Who Are Musk’s Main Competitors? 10.What Are Musk’s Ultimate Goals? Intro :: SpaceX has been putting winds on the board ever since the company founded by serial entrepreneur E lon Musk became the first privately funded group to put a payload in earth orbit in 2008 since then the company has continued to impress launching unmanned cargo vehicles to the international space station is and winning a contract from Nasa to fly astronauts as well as early as 2017. there have been setbacks most disastrously last June when a cargo rocket bound for the ISS exploded on route costing the crew much needed s...