NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/nasa-chooses-musk-s-spacex-to-negotiate-launch-pad-lease.html

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. won the battle of the billionaires to lease a Kennedy Space Center launch pad once used to send astronauts to the moon, NASA announced today.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it had selected Musk’s SpaceX over Amazon.com Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin LLC to negotiate the rights to lease and use the launch pad, which was mothballed after the U.S. retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011.