NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon’s surface in over half a century.

As Reuters reports, NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffy indicated the space agency is looking to tap Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — one of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s biggest rivals — instead.

“I’m in the process of opening that contract up. I think we’ll see companies like Blue get involved, and maybe others,” he told Fox News during a televised interview on Monday. “We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually get us back to the Moon first.”

It’s an astonishing twist, showing that NASA is growing wary of SpaceX and its enormous Starship spacecraft falling behind schedule. The rocket’s development has been mired

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