Elon Musk's SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon - Starship leaves Bezos and defense contractors Blue-balled

The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
SpaceX has a better chance of using $3 billion effectively than those other companies.

If you want a moon base or Mars death camp, cheap, fully reusable Starships are how you get one. Artemis is still an SLS jobs program, but SpaceX gets to ramp up Starship development with that $3 billion.
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You're wrong.
America will build satellite space hotels, China will dominate all the real estate.
SpaceX hasn't moved us forward at all. I believe Elon is in the pocket of China, and that's where all this shadow money comes from, that's why he made 100 billion during the pandemic while lying about it the entire time, he's sinking the ship.
 
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This is why SpaceX was chosen.
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Yeah, lets give enormous government contracts to private companies because the government has treated every agency in it's grasp like a platinum credit card for 40 years, that'll fix our budgetary issues. These companies that have been built by this country will totally build the country back, better even!

If only you knew how bad things really are :suffering:
 
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WolfeTone said:
Yeah, lets give enormous government contracts to private companies because the government has treated every agency in it's grasp like a platinum credit card for 40 years, that'll fix our budgetary issues. These companies that have been built by this country will totally build the country back, better even!

If only you knew how bad things really are :suffering:
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You know that every single NASA launch vehicle and lander in history was built by "the evil corporations", right? The LEM was built by Grumman, the Saturn V was assembled from stages built by Boeing, North American, and Douglas. NASA has never and will never build rockets in-house. That's not how it works and it's never been how it works.

You could also consider the fact that NASA chose the cheapest option, which also happened to be the most capable option; which also happened to be more than half funded by SpaceX as a private investment in the Starship architecture. The contract explicitly avoids any up-front payment, all money is dependent on milestones being met. This is a dramatic departure from how the government usually wastes money, and if you actually read the documents you'd know that.

Here, have fun.
 
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I hate Musk immensely, and think he's a partial snake-oil salesman that the IFLS crowd puts on a pedestal (despite a ton of talented aerospace engineers and other STEM people working for him who are doing all the leg-work), but I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Despite the farms being largely pessimistic/doomers about humanity, I'm a big fan of space exploration/colonization and want to see honest-to-god efforts towards it.

I may eat my words in several years/decades, but whatever. Maybe we can accidentally create a sentient AI to replace us when humanity goes tits-up in the meantime?
:optimistic::optimistic::optimistic:
 
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