IPFS News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
US government should support Spacex and quickly develop moon bases
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangThe US Air Force is supporting the Raptor engine development with about $74 million. The US government is spending $536 milliona on the AR1 replacement rocket for the Russian RD-180 engine. Ten billion has gone into Spacelaunch which has not launched after 7 years of funding.
Spacex has more wealthy paying customers interested in the lunar orbiting mission.