NASA wants to reopen competition on its moon lander, a multi-billion-dollar contract for a new space vehicle that will help support one of America’s most ambitious missions yet: going back to the moon — and for good.

The space agency’s decision to reopen the contract for the Artemis mission moon lander renews competition between SpaceX, which had previously won the award, and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space startup. But it also sets off a competition between Texas and Washington, the two companies’ respective home states. Politicians long fought over American space spending, as Fast Company explained a while back. But it’s not clear where they stand, at least for now.

Several congressional offices that would be impacted by the space agency opening up the contract did not respond to a req

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