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Re:Starship is still not understood by baggachipz on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:25AM (#29026494)
> NASA is right to not put all of its eggs in the Starship basket.

The problem is that not only are they not putting any eggs into the Starship basket, they aren't even aware (or admitting) that the basket even exists.

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Re:Starship is still not understood by simonh on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:35AM (#29027318)
>not putting any eggs into the Starship basket

HLS is a $2.89bn egg they have put in the Starship basket.

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Re:Starship is still not understood by Cthulhu_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:38AM (#29026621)
Citation needed; they are aware, and admitting is down to the PR department. Can't have a government branch openly express support to a corporate party that easily.
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Re:Starship is still not understood by dangerbird2 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:41AM (#29026655)
A big reason why they selected SpaceX's proposal to use a variation on Starship as the Artemis lunar lander is for NASA to start subsidizing Starship's development.
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Re:Starship is still not understood by stohk on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:56PM (#29028222)
The SpaceX HLS bid relies on starship working and they won* that award. I think NASA acknowledged the basket and threw 2 billion into it.
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