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| New Lunar Starship design |
Biggish money:
- SpaceX got a $2.89 billion contract to go to the moon.
- Northrup-Grumman got a $2.3 billion contract to support our fleet of Minuteman missiles.
- Compare that to the $6 billion the US Postal Service loses every year.
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| A maintainer looks over a Minuteman III in a silo about 60 miles from Grand Forks AFB, N.D., in 1989. - U.S. Air Force |
There are about 400 Minuteman missiles remaining in our arsenal. They stand about 60 feet tall and are five and half feet in diameter, so they are relatively tiny compared to SpaceX's Starship which is like 400 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter. The volume of a Starship is about 200 times the volume of a Minuteman. Still big enough to enough to deliver nuclear bombs to Russia. The current version dates back to the Apollo Moon landing project. Wikipedia knows all.
Update a couple of hours later: reformatted first paragraph so that the three links could be seen as separate and not just one giant link.
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