Senate Votes Down Sanders’ Bid to Cut Funding for NASA’s Second Moon Lander

It appears that Senator Bernie Sanders has lost his latest battle against private space ventures, as the Senate has voted against a motion that would’ve cut funding for a second NASA lunar lander.
On Wednesday, senators turned down Sanders’ motion to remove authorization for $US10 ($14) billion in NASA funding that Blue Origin, the aerospace firm led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is competing for against other private space companies. This funding is slated to come out of the federal