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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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> Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX, fired back: "SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry. Moreover, Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words."

Still marking his words on self-driving vehicles so I guess we can add this to the list. What’s the casualty count so far on that one btw?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

Re: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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Is this realistic? Doesn't the development timelines for a new large rocket stretch into more than a decade? Unless someone else had one under development... Could this just be a pressure tactic on SpaceX?

This contract isn’t for launch - that will be SLS (in theory) - rather for the lander.

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Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.

"Not even" only applies to those that haven't followed the events of the past decade.

1. USA is no longer sponsoring groundbreaking research 2. USA had already begun outsourcing research to companies that are not grounded in long term employment of researchers.

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About damn time!

Who do you think is capable of competing, given that they didn't win the bid the first time round?

They should just get an Apollo lander, maybe strap on some rockets from Nike Ajax missiles, buff it up a bit, maybe throw a shuttle windscreen on it too. Job done.

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Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.

Yeah who is going to deliver faster and more reliable than SpaceX? Boeing? LM? Doubt

I don't know who else can, but I do seriously doubt SpaceX is going to be able to deliver within the next decade or so either.

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I love how government acquisitions works. A company can fail to deliver the final product, then use the recompete process to win a higher paying contract by using the progress they already made on the previous contract to demonstrate a performance level above their competitors. Whereas all the competition has to use their own R&D budget to show capability to meet the requirements of the second contract, the winner of…

I'm confused. Who are you talking about here?

SpaceX has consistently been on the wrong end of what you write about, with ULA/Boeing/whatever pulling that kind of stunt again and again. Just look at the SLS budget.

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