Politico

Rivals worry the SpaceX boss will rig the playing field for space exploration in his favor.

Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’ Blue Origin have been dueling to be the most technologically advanced company in the private space flight sector. Investments from the federal government have propelled the companies but also forced them to compete over resources. The matter came to a head in 2021 when SpaceX snagged a multibillion-dollar contract for a moon landing mission and Blue Origin sued the federal government over it. Blue Origin lost that case but was later awarded its own contract to create other technology for a moon mission.

Recently, Blue Origin has been trying to thwart some of SpaceX’s work with the federal government.