> They burned billions of public funds, literally.
Wrong. Public funds are not paying for Starship development but for the HLS variant development, at significantly lower cost than the HLS lander from Blue Origin. Which likely still doesn't cover the entire funding even for Blue Origin. A lot is paid by those space companies themselves. A NASA developed lander (Altair from the Constellation program), would probably have cost around an order of magnitude more.
Extremely shallow take on what is undoubtedly the rise of America's next great space era
The entire program is likely cheaper thus far than a single SLS flight.
> They burned billions of public funds, literally.
Wrong. Public funds are not paying for Starship development but for the HLS variant development, at significantly lower cost than the HLS lander from Blue Origin. Which likely still doesn't cover the entire funding even for Blue Origin. A lot is paid by those space companies themselves. A NASA developed lander (Altair from the Constellation program), would probably have cost around an order of magnitude more.
I wouldn't worry too much. It costs more than that to add a bus lane in America.