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Sen. Bernie Sanders is jumping into NASA's lunar lander fiasco with an amendment that deletes the whole human landing system section from the NASA authorization bill "Purpose: To eliminate the multi-billion dollar Bezos Bailout"

10:04 PM · May 24, 2021

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The "Bezos Bailout" refers to a recent amendment from Sen. Cantwell that recommends a $10 billion plan to reopen NASA's human Moon lander program that Bezos' Blue Origin lost out on to SpaceX, the winning bidder. Some background:

Proposed bill aims to toss a new wrench in NASA’s Moon lander plan

Miffed by SpaceX’s award, a top senator aims to rewrite the rules.

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can you confirm the accuracy of this meme

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he should focus on canceling student debt better

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What’s the “fiasco”? One won the competition and the other lost and is now throwing a political tantrum

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Bezos owns Cantwell. He should not be able to do that.

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A reminder: We spend only about 1% on NASA.

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No, but it's money for NASA 😥

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1st time I totally agree with Sanders

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