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Elon Musk's Plans for the Moon

Prediction: SpaceX will beat everyone, including NASA, back to the Moon.

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by Rod D. Martin
August 26, 2021

ScienceAlert.com reports this morning that SpaceX Now Claims They Might Return Humans to The Moon Even Before 2024.

Jeff Bezos pitched a hissy fit when Elon Musk won the competition to build America’s next lunar lander, at a fraction of the price and radically more payload. He actually sued the government.

He won’t win. But even if he does, that won’t stop SpaceX from doing anything at all.

Knowing Elon, he's likely to go to the Moon on his own, without NASA, without NASA's money, and without the entire stupid useless Artemis program. Just to show his (and his technology's) absolute superiority. Dominance.

It's absolutely what I'd do.

And if you stop and think about it for a second, why on God's Earth are we (the United States) wasting a single dollar on NASA/Boeing/Lockheed's idiotic Artemis -- $2 Billion per launch to carry four people to the Moon -- just so Elon's $2 Million per launch Starship can ferry them down to the surface, in a rocket that can carry…

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