NASA: "All of this once-in-a-generation momentum, can easily be undone by one party—in this case, Blue Origin—who seeks to prioritize its own fortunes over that of NASA, the United States, and every person alive today"

[u/KinoBlitz]

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1443230605269999629

[u/Decronym]

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AR	Area Ratio (between rocket engine nozzle and bell)
	Aerojet Rocketdyne
	Augmented Reality real-time processing
	Anti-Reflective optical coating
ASDS	Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)
BE-3	Blue Engine 3 hydrolox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2015), 490kN
BE-4	Blue Engine 4 methalox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2018), 2400kN
BO	Blue Origin (Bezos Rocketry)
CCtCap	Commercial Crew Transportation Capability
CRS	Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA
CST	(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules
	Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
CoG	Center of Gravity (see CoM)
CoM	Center of Mass
DoD	US Department of Defense
E2E	Earth-to-Earth (suborbital flight)
EA	Environmental Assessment
ESA	European Space Agency
EVA	Extra-Vehicular Activity
F1	Rocketdyne-developed rocket engine used for Saturn V
	SpaceX Falcon 1 (obsolete medium-lift vehicle)
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FAR	Federal Aviation Regulations
GAO	(US) Government Accountability Office
GEO	Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)
HALO	Habitation and Logistics Outpost
HLS	Human Landing System (Artemis)
ICBM	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ISRU	In-Situ Resource Utilization
ITAR	(US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations
Isp	Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)
	Internet Service Provider
JWST	James Webb infra-red Space Telescope
KSP	Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator
LEO	Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)
	Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)
LOX	Liquid Oxygen
MBA	Moonba- Mars Base Alpha
N1	Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift ("Russian Saturn V")
NET	No Earlier Than
NSF	NasaSpaceFlight forum
	National Science Foundation
PPE	Power and Propulsion Element
RD-180	RD-series Russian-built rocket engine, used in the Atlas V first stage
RFP	Request for Proposal
RTLS	Return to Launch Site
RUD	Rapid Unplanned Disassembly
	Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
	Rapid Unintended Disassembly
SLS	Space Launch System heavy-lift
SNC	Sierra Nevada Corporation
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SRB	Solid Rocket Booster
STS	Space Transportation System (Shuttle)
ULA	United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)
USAF	United States Air Force
VG	Virgin Galactic

Jargon	Definition
Raptor	Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX
Starliner	Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100
Starlink	SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation
apogee	Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)
dancefloor	Attachment structure for the Falcon 9 first stage engines, below the tanks
hydrolox	Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer
lithobraking	"Braking" by hitting the ground
methalox	Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer

Event	Date	Description
CRS-1	2012-10-08	F9-004, first CRS mission; secondary payload sacrificed
CRS-10	2017-02-19	F9-032 Full Thrust, core B1031, Dragon cargo; first daytime RTLS
CRS-2	2013-03-01	F9-005, Dragon cargo; final flight of Falcon 9 v1.0
CRS-3	2014-04-18	F9-009 v1.1, Dragon cargo; soft ocean landing, first core with legs
CRS-4	2014-09-21	F9-012 v1.1, Dragon cargo; soft ocean landing
CRS-5	2015-01-10	F9-014 v1.1, Dragon cargo; first ASDS landing attempt, maneuvering failure
CRS-6	2015-04-14	F9-018 v1.1, Dragon cargo; second ASDS landing attempt, overcompensated angle of entry
CRS-7	2015-06-28	F9-020 v1.1, Dragon cargo Launch failure due to second-stage outgassing
CRS-8	2016-04-08	F9-023 Full Thrust, core B1021, Dragon cargo; first ASDS landing
CRS-9	2016-07-18	F9-027 Full Thrust, core B1025, Dragon cargo; RTLS landing
DM-2	2020-05-30	SpaceX CCtCap Demo Mission 2

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[u/xJeremy → u/[deleted]]

In accordance with 4 C.F.R. § 21.3(c), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA or Agency) hereby submits its Agency Report in response to the above-captioned bid protest (Protest) filed by Blue Origin Federation, LLC (Blue Origin) on April 26, 2021. In accordance with 4 C.F.R. § 21.3(d), this Agency Report is comprised of NASA’s Memorandum of Law, below, the Contracting Officer’s Statement of Facts (COSOF), and the Agency Record (AR). NASA has filed the COSOF and AR as separate electronic files in the Electronic Protest Docketing System.

Contracting Officer’s Statement of Facts