| It's more sarky and negative. eg the phrase "musk wasting some $3 billion dollars of taxpayer money" appears (2:49) but that's not the deal. The actual deal, from Wikipedia: >On 16 April 2021, NASA selected only Starship HLS for crewed lunar lander development plus two lunar demonstration flights – one uncrewed and one crewed – no earlier than 2024. The contract is valued at US$2.89 billion over a number of years. and as far as I know they are still working on that. Compared to the last moon landings: >According to The Planetary Society, The United States spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973. Converting 1965 dollars to 2024 dollars, that is $255 billion it's a bargain. It was also a fraction of what Bezos and the other bidder quoted. Starship is not just a NASA funded project. SpaceX use their own funds and it will be used for things like Starlink commercially and maybe also Mars. Thunderf00t on youtube goes on and on slagging Musk. I thought I'd count how many videos he's done slagging him but got bored counting at 37. There are better things to spend time on. |