“NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings. The NLS II contracts provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites. These high-priority, low and medium risk tolerant missions have full NASA technical oversight and mission assurance, resulting in the highest probability of launch success,” says a NASA press release from Tuesday, the “award” part doing a lot of heavy lifting to make it look like an open, honest, meritorious process in which other companies came up juuust short of winning however fucking much money this is going to be.
Why can’t Ketamine brain just get it over with and change the name to Weyland-Yutani already?