Share the QR code with wechat scanning code < / P > < p > to friends and circles of friends < / P > < p > on Monday, local time, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proposed to NASA that as long as blue origin can participate in the manufacturing of lunar spacecraft, the company will reduce the price by $2 billion < p > < / P > < p > earlier this year, SpaceX of competitor Elon Musk won a contract to develop a lunar spacecraft for NASA. Bezos's move is the latest move to win a contract for blue origin < p > Bezos wrote to NASA Director Bill Nelson on Monday morning, saying that as long as NASA can sign a contract with blue origin, it is willing to give up the $2 billion that NASA needs to pay in the first two years of contract implementation. In addition, blue origin will raise its own funds to launch a lunar landing spacecraft called "blue moon" into low earth orbit. This plan may cost hundreds of millions of dollars“ I firmly believe that this task is very important, "Bezos said“ I'm honored to make these contributions, and I'm glad I have the economic strength to do so. " < p > in a week, the General Administration of audit (GAO) will make a formal ruling on the award of SpaceX only for the contract of blue origin protesting that NASA will develop the lunar spacecraft. "What NASA needs to do is modify the contract according to this proposal," Bezos said in the letter A NASA spokesman said he did receive a letter from Bezos, but declined to comment further, "to ensure the integrity of the procurement process and the fairness of the ruling of the U.S. general audit office on the matter." < p > Lori Garver, former deputy director of NASA, said that modifying the contract according to Bezos's proposal is not as simple as it sounds. Gaffer said NASA should not ignore Bezos's proposal, but it may not be exactly what blue origin wants“ Overall, I think this is a positive signal, but it should not affect the current contract or plan, "gaffer said < p > all this began in April this year. At that time, NASA announced that nearly half a century after the implementation of the Apollo moon landing program, the first batch of American astronauts would be sent to the moon with the SpaceX starship system by 2024. The scheme proposed by blue origin and dynamics, another bidder, was put on hold. Although these companies still have the opportunity to participate in future moon landing projects, NASA said that the funds provided by the U.S. Congress are limited and can only choose SpaceX as a contractor < p > gaffer said that it has always been our plan to finally bring in more contractors to compete. "I'm glad to know that we now have a contractor who is willing to pay for it." Having said that, she doesn't think Bezos's proposal is likely to change NASA's idea of implementing existing contracts. NASA staff are worried that adjusting the contract NASA has awarded SpaceX may cause new legal problems. "NASA can't 'accept the proposal' just because blue origin pays its own money," gaffer said. But it is certain that the blue origin of out of pocket will certainly gain more advantages in the next round of bidding. " < p > Bezos said in his letter that $2 billion would "fill the budget funding gap of the manned lunar landing system" and "put the project back on track immediately", and called on NASA to solve the funding needs and accelerate the pace to complete the mission before the deadline of the lunar landing plan in 2024. In the process of verifying the facts and making a ruling by the U.S. general audit office, the protest raised by blue origin led to SpaceX's suspension of the performance of a $3 billion NASA contract. August 2 is the deadline for the U.S. general audit office to make a ruling. This ruling can recommend but cannot force NASA to restart the bidding and modify the contract, or reject the protest of blue origin and resume the implementation of the existing contract < p > since the protest, blue origin has launched a strategy to persuade NASA to amend the contract before the U.S. audit office makes a ruling. In May this year, Bob Smith, CEO of blue origin, gave a speech tour in the U.S. Congress. The long acceptance time of the U.S. general audit office gives blue origin lobbyists time to propose a bill to allow NASA to invest another $10 billion in the manned lunar landing system, some of which may be used to fund the development of blue origin's lunar landing spacecraft. But their strategies may not be implemented as planned. The amendment has been passed in the US Senate and is currently being debated in the US House of Representatives, but critics call it the "Bezos rescue plan". Moreover, historically, protests against the United States general audit office have rarely been successful < p > in order to enable NASA to choose blue origin to participate in the manufacturing of lunar spacecraft, Bezos's proposal to reduce $2 billion is also the latest measure of blue origin, perhaps the most desperate effort. But this is not the first time Bezos has paid out of his own pocket. According to three people familiar with the matter, in 2019, just after blue origin publicly announced the lunar landing spacecraft project called "blue moon", Bezos met with then director Jim bridenstine at NASA headquarters and proposed to bear 30% of the cost of demonstrating the lunar landing spacecraft of blue origin, about US $200 million < p > since then, blue origin has formed a "national team" with partners including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Among them, Northrop Grumman is responsible for building the transfer module used to separate the "blue moon" from the lunar orbiting module. Blue origin is responsible for manufacturing the lunar landing module to send astronauts to the moon, while Lockheed Martin will be responsible for manned flight training and manufacturing the "blue moon bright" ascending module to send astronauts from the lunar surface to the lunar orbiting space station called gateway. In his letter on Monday, Bezos also promised to "ensure that NASA is not affected by the rising manufacturing costs of partners"（ Chen Chen) < / P > < p >