SpaceX just won the NASA contract for the lunar landing system, beating out the oil-painting-slow-but-politically-connected competition.
NASA Will Spend $2,941,394,557 On SpaceX’s Massive Lunar Starship Lander!!!
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Apr 17, 2021
Scott Manley
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Many people were surprised yesterday when news leaked that NASA was awarding all the funding from the Artemis Human Landing System program to SpaceX with its massive Lunar Starship project. SpaceX’s price tag is about $2.9 billion with a commitment to fund half of it themselves. While most space watchers could see why SpaceX had made it to the final round most of us didn’t expect it to be the only choice because it was so unlike what NASA was asking for.
However the HLS program only got 1/3 of the money it needed from Congress and with time marching on NASA had to make a decision and the only option with a price tag that fit was SpaceX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuSM_-Aw5HM
How are we doing on the Space Elevator off the equator? If we can accomplish that it would be the affordable doorway to all projects beyond Earth’s gravity.