So it'll be SLS to and back from lunar gateway and and Earth and Starship from gateway to moon and back. Just hope Biden doesn't cancel the whole thing before it happens.
Musk is one the country’s premiere winners of govt largesse. A role model for us all!
Musk has some VERY top-notch engineering and technical staff working for him. They’ll do excellent work on the lander.
They’ll never make it in time for 2024.
I thought we already had a lunar lander that runs on a Commodore 64.
I couldn’t discuss the merits of any of the designs or technology, too far above my pay grade. But I will say that Musk seems to be much more involved in the project personally. Much more experience with building things in general. Bezos doesn’t seem to come in the top 5 - behind Musk, and the Virgin Galactic guy, and NASA, and the defense contractors... Sure he could throw endless money at it. But he doesn’t seem personally invested in it at all from my POV.
Hmm...I wonder What kind of person you need to be to win a contract with the deep state now days.?.?
Are the explosions standard equipment or do they cost extra?
SpaceX can bid low because they’re essentially doing the project anyway - Moon is just scheduling another trip.
That Dynetics design was going nowhere, anyway....
Just hope Biden doesn’t cancel the whole thing before it happens.
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He’ll sell the NASA component to China for favors returned
I liked Dynetics design too. Incredible and exciting news for Musk and
SpaceX Team. They can do it. Glad Bald headed Bezos Blue Origin
got shut out.
I read a Forbes article today that speculated that SpaceX’s bid was much
lower and that because Congress has been underfunding the moon mission for years, this might be a move to get Congress to up their Moon
Mission funding. I.E. , If Congress wants a backup Company for a Moon
Mission, Congress will have to cough up More money.
Hmm, that is interesting. Space-X was considered the underdog in this particular contract race because their design relied on the, still in development, Starship. While the other contenders planned to use existing technology. Shows that NASA must believe that Space-X will quickly work out the current issues with Starship (such as...well exploding every time its tested) and be ready to go by 2023.
How long until the contract is challenged because an electric model wasn’t considered to comply with Biden’s executive order that all government vehicles be electric?
But will it be battery powered?