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Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (www.nbcnews.com)
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[โ€“] gaael 21 points 10 months ago

"The lunar lander was privately built thanks to decades of public research and development and public funding (in the form of wage theft / tax evasion) which allowed the company to have enough capital to design and build the lander"