longhegrindilemna t1_jaaj16h wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:03 AM

At least NASA can say they are relying on Boeing, ULA, and Blue Origin to get Americans to the moon, and relying on Collins Aerospace to build a new spacesuit.

The ability of NASA to ignore SpaceX and continue handing over hundreds of millions to low-yielding subcontractors spread across different congressional districts, is amazing.

Just to be clear: /s

Bewaretheicespiders t1_jab2mxf wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:30 AM

Boeing sucks, but SpaceX's Starship is Nasa's only authorised lunar lander at the moment, so its not really fair to say Nasa is ignoring SpaceX to go to the moon.

bookers555 t1_jaeb1n8 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:36 PM

>The ability of NASA to ignore SpaceX

They aren't, they need SpaceX for the moon landing. The whole plan is to get the SLS to launch a crewed Orion spacecraft to the Moon, rendezvous with the lunar lander variant of Starship in Lunar orbit and use it to land.