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They should put that team to work on next-generation tech, the stuff that's not yet a commodity. They can start working on habitat construction materials and hardware, for instance.

Although it is interesting to consider that we've put a lot of expense into optimizing payloads that, in retrospect, would have been smarter to put into better launch vehicles. SpaceX probably isn't going to spend $2 billion developing Starship (even if Boeing would have.)




IIRC, SpaceX is getting $2.89B from NASA for the Artemis lander, which proposal is based on Starship. Although, the GAO put that on hold recently, after complaints from BlueOrigin and Dynetics. Hardly surprising, I guess.




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