Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Loses Lawsuit Against NASA Over SpaceX Lunar Lander

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected a lawsuit brought by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin against NASA over its lunar lander contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Earlier this year, Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics were in competition for NASA's contract to build spacecraft to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972. SpaceX was awarded a contract valued at $2.94 billion.

Bezos, the founder and former CEO of $Amazon(AMZN.US)$ , acknowledged his courtroom loss on social media by tweeting, “Not the decision we wanted, but we respect the court’s judgment, and wish full success for NASA and SpaceX on the contract.”

Musk, the self-proclaimed “technoking” at $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ , was more facetious in his response — he responded to a CNBC tweet on the story by a sharing a meme from the movie “Judge Dredd” that stated “You Have Been Judged!”