NASA Will Spend $2,941,394,557 On SpaceX's Massive Lunar Starship Lander!!!

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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.

There's much more info in
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-a-source-selection-statement-final.pdf



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