• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Sigh. Yet another one-off mission with a price tag that will rival the total program cost of developing Starship.

    I hope the lesson of James Webb Telescope will lead them to cancel the program and reboot it afresh rather than rewarding failure by dumping an endless stream of money into it.

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      1 year ago

      It’s hard to commit to someone like Astrobotic or Intuitive Machines until they prove their Lunar landers, but I would be really interested to see what they would propose for something like this.

      Or revive Red Dragon?