NASA opens SpaceX's moon lander contract to rivals over Starship delays

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21. I get that

"funding theoreticals, hypotheticals, and dreams"

That is literally the job of our government. I actually expect them to do that. Obviously that doesn't mean we found every half baked idea but some of them, yes. Others need at least to prove a viable concept.
To be clear, we pump billions of dollars into research every year and every year it becomes less and less but corporations keep getting more and more.
If someone is complaining about billion dollars in research money but not about 100 billion in corporate grift from the government, then we, as a society, are sending the wrong message.