/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15015500
I’m not the anon you’re replying to (just for clarification, I’m >>15015482) but it is a bit odd. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a conspiratard. I went to JSC a few weeks ago and they had a giant HLS Starship print on canvas almost as soon as you walk in. And they openly love spacex. But they have oddly weird requirements on how they are supposed to show HLS in Artemis mock-ups. There’s a slide out there that specifically states “DO NOT DEPICT SPACEX LANDER. ONLY HLS REFERENCE MODEL IS TO BE USED” like what the hell? If we lived in the timeline where they chose a boeing lander that bitch would be plastered everywhere.
I think it either has to do with the fact that
a) they always somewhat expected a second lander to be chosen so they decide they didn’t want to play favorites in schematics and stuff
or b) they knew boeing and/or national team was going to bid something very close to their reference lander and was likely to win so it just made it easier to keep the reference lander in all the schematics