Last Friday, NASA made an announcement that surprised a lot of people, awarding the contract to build the new lunar lander that will take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972, to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
It’s not so much that SpaceX won, it’s that NASA didn’t also award a backup contract. Reading between the lines, it looks like that migh…
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