Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, recently made it known to the public that he would offer $2 billion to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) if, in return, they were to construct a lunar lander that landed astronauts on the moon.

Bezos stated that, within the next two years, the Blue Origin would renounce every payment up to $2 billion that came from NASA. Additionally, Bezos said that the Blue Origin would pay for its own pathfinder mission, which would be located in lower-Earth orbit. The company, as a result, asked for a specific contract from the government agency with a set price.

"This offer is not a deferral, but is an outright and permanent waiver of those payments. This offer provides time for government appropriation actions to catch up," stated Bezos in an open letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

At the moment, Jeff Bezos and his billionaire companion, Sir Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Galactic (SPCE  )), are among few entrepreneurs in the business of sending tourists into space. Bezos stated that, in this past week alone, the Blue Origin has sold about $100 million tickets to send passengers to space in the future.

Blue Origin is more readily pursuing work on establishing rocket boosters to fly more often at the "very high rate" that Bezos intends. In an open letter to NASA Administrator this past Monday, Jeff Bezos emphasized his dedication to maintaining the Human Landing System program in a competitive manner by permitting NASA to choose two companies to establish machinery that would send astronauts to the moon rather than merely one.

Before choosing a winner of the competition, NASA had provided 10-month contracts to SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to start working on lunar landers so that the company could choose from a wider range of choices.

"Instead of this single source approach, NASA should embrace its original strategy of competition," Bezos wrote. Later he went on to say, "Without competition, a short time into the contract, NASA will find itself with limited options as it attempts to negotiate missed deadlines, design changes, and cost overruns."

Bezos, in his attempts to offer $2 billion to NASA in exchange for a lunar lander, hopes to send various tourists into space. In turn, this will create a greater sense of competition with the Blue Origin among other companies, and allow the Blue Origin to move forward in a far stronger capacity.