{"id":88527,"date":"2024-06-14T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T07:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=88527"},"modified":"2024-06-14T03:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T07:24:20","slug":"bezos-blue-origin-joins-spacex-ula-in-winning-bids-for-5-6-billion-pentagon-rocket-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2024\/bezos-blue-origin-joins-spacex-ula-in-winning-bids-for-5-6-billion-pentagon-rocket-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin joins SpaceX, ULA in winning bids for $5.6 billion Pentagon rocket program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The Pentagon announced the first winning bidders in its rocket launch contract sweepstakes on Thursday, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>\u2019 Blue Origin grabbing a spot for the first time. Blue Origin\u2019s winning bid came as part of contracts awarded under the Pentagon\u2019s $5.6 billion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/09\/investing-in-space-the-military-doled-out-6-billion-for-rocket-launches.html\">National Security Space Launch program.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\"> Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0SpaceX and United Launch Alliance \u2013 also known as ULA, the joint venture of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/LMT\/\">Lockheed Martin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BA\/\">Boeing<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 were also awarded contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/06\/13\/pentagon-picks-blue-origin-spacex-ula-in-5point6-billion-rocket-program.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The Pentagon announced the first winning bidders in its rocket launch contract sweepstakes on Thursday, with\u00a0Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin grabbing a spot for the first time. Blue Origin\u2019s winning bid came as part of contracts awarded under the Pentagon\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88528,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527\/revisions\/88528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}