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Semi-Related:
Kathy Lueders used to be a high up at NASA.
She personally chose to make Starship HLS variant be the thing that delivers Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon/
She also wildly misrepresented SpaceX's capabilities and rigged the 'request for proposal' process heavily in favor of SpaceX a few years later.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAEYtaB3R7Y
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSZlZegPnl4
... And now she works for SpaceX.
https://www.space.com/spacex-hires-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-kathy-lueders
It's basically a comedic parody of the kind of regulatory capture process, the incestuous relationship of people jumping between the private and government sides of a public/private partnership... and its all right in the open, actually real.
This kind of shit is the actual deep state, the actual unelected, quid pro quo, 'subject matter expert' asshats that cause waste fraud and abuse.
BO and dynetics proposals also weren't great. The path to reusability was really fishy.