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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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Post by JumpCrisscross »

dzonga wrote: post #29

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> when either Boeing or the military industrial complex would handle these things with precision

There is a good chance Artemis II and potentially (albeit with long odds) even III are delayed due to Lockheed fucking up a legacy heat shield on Orion.

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

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Post by nerdjon »

At the end of the day competition for SpaceX is a good thing so we don't become reliant on a single company and the whims of the person that owns it.

I don't know enough about whether or not they really are behind or if this is just a bit of sensationalized reporting. But this is how it should have likely been from the beginning.

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

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Post by a4isms »

askl wrote: post #36
boxed wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to keep two things in your mind at the same time: Elon Musk sometimes say things that are true. Elon Must sometimes say things that are not true. In this case, it's the first one.

> Elon Musk sometimes say things that are true. Has this ever happened in the last 10 years?

He has often said things that are true, provided you ignore the ten to twenty times he said something else about the same subject with equal confidence. He is a master of goalpost relocation. Ask any Cybertruck owner. He shipped it, but was it the Cybertruck he promised?

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

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Post by roer »

daveguy wrote: post #23
philipwhiuk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Is this about getting to the moon quickly or is it about doing it with the help of a different rocket company?

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

loourr wrote: post #35
dzonga wrote: post #29

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Can you name a rocket program that was delivered ahead of schedule? I'm not aware of one that exists.

The first moon landing? Kennedy wanted it done before the end of the decade and they landed in 1969. I guess you could argue that it was on schedule rather than ahead.
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