Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos walks with Blue Origin's President and CEO Bob Smith after Bezos flew on the company's inaugural flight to the edge of space, in the nearby town of Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters
Jeff Bezos' space company remains on the offensive in criticizing NASA's decision to award Elon Musk's SpaceX with the sole contract to build a vehicle to land astronauts on the moon, despite the government last week denying Blue Origin's protest .
In an infographic published on Blue Origin's website and seen on Wednesday, the company called SpaceX using Starship to transport NASA astronauts to the lunar surface an "immensely complex & high risk" approach. Blue Origin is referring to a criticism that NASA officials made in evaluating Starship for the lunar lander program.