Business Insider by Kevin Shalvey Sun, September 5, 2021
Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA and SpaceX was again delayed as the DOJ struggled to add page numbers to 1,700 case-related documents before deadline
• Blue Origin's lawsuit against the US government and SpaceX was again delayed over technical issues.
• Dept. of Justice lawyers on Friday asked for a four-day extension to paginate about 1,700 documents.
• Delays in the case could affect the timeline for NASA's planned Artemis moon missions.
A deadline in Blue Origin's lawsuit against the US government and SpaceX was postponed again on Friday, as the government struggled to add page numbers to the "extremely voluminous" case documents.
A week ago, on August 27, the Department of Justice had asked for a one-week extension, saying it was having difficulty getting 7GB of case documents into a format that could be shared with the parties. The documents were to be transferred to DVDs.
On Friday, the DOJ filed another extension request, saying
a new issue had cropped up with about 1,700 case documents, which now topped out at more than 16GB.
"The record is fully complete, arranged in tabs and subtabs, and fully indexed," DOJ lawyers wrote in an extension request on Friday. "However,
the process of applying page numbering to each page of the record is taking longer than anticipated, and will not be completed by the deadline."
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