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Old 04-18-2021, 04:00 PM   #205
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk View Post
I saw today where Musk beat out Bezos for the lander first mission back to the Moon despite not having yet successfully landed his. Apparently his bid was significantly below the price of everyone else because he is funding half of it through his commercial ventures.
Reminds me of that quote attributed to John Glenn about how one would feel if they were getting ready to launch and knew they were sitting on top of 2 million parts, all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
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