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NASA agreements to support work on commercial spacecraft and space stations (spacenews.com)
submitted 2 years ago by thwomp to c/spacex
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SpaceX received a CCSC-2 agreement to work on an “integrated low Earth orbit architecture” involving both its Dragon and Starship vehicles. “This architecture includes Starship as a transportation and in-space low-Earth orbit destination element supported by Super Heavy, Dragon, and Starlink,” the announcement stated.

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[–] thwomp 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It looks like this is the first official mention of a Starship station.

Eric Berger also said:

To add a bit of context: A couple of years ago SpaceX considered working with one of the four current providers of commercial space stations for NASA. But when it came time to decide Musk pulled back, saying SpaceX needed to focus on getting Starship into orbit first.

At the time, IIRC, the speculation was that SpaceX really phoned in their Commercial LEO Destinations bid. Berger makes it sound like they might have withdrawn?