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Month: March 2022

Postal Service to buy 50,000 delivery vehicles in $3 billion initial order; agency to double EV purchases

Postal Service to buy 50,000 delivery vehicles in $3 billion initial order; agency to double EV purchases

U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy said that based on USPS’s reform efforts and “our improving outlook, we have determined that increasing our initial electric vehicle purchase from 5,000 to 10,019 makes good sense from an operational and financial perspective.”

NASA sticks with SpaceX while also opening future moon landings to competition

NASA sticks with SpaceX while also opening future moon landings to competition

Several members of Congress cried foul when NASA chose just SpaceX as its lone contractor for the lunar lander planned to be used on the Artemis III mission to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. Now NASA has announced it’s opening up future missions to a second U.S. company.