NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

Post by fluoridation » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:38 AM UTC

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>It’s just as absurd today as it was in the 60s. Nah. You can argue that the goal "land on the moon" is artificial, but it being artificial doesn't make it fake or abstract. If you're the first to achieve it then you're the first, and that's it. What does it prove if you're able to repeat it fifty years later? You didn't have to invent anything new (obviously), and you're certainly not learning anything new. Now, if…

> You didn't have to invent anything new Yes, you do. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/12/11/how-we-lost-th...

Post by LPisGood » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:41 AM UTC

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There is just so much wrong with this from start to finish. Here are a few things, by no means inclusive: 1. We’ve already beaten China to the moon by 56 years, 3 months, and some change. And counting. 2. Nothing based around SLS is remotely serious. The cost and timeline of doing anything with it are unreasonable. It is an absolute dead-end. The SpaceX Super Heavy has been more capable arguably as early as the secon…

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Post by ramblenode » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

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Lots of people complaining that we have already won the "moon race" and that this makes no sense. This is a completely wrong reading of the situation. Let's say we forgot how to do heart transplants. Once we did them a few times perfectly, got all surgical techniques right, but patients died shortly after the surgery due to rejection. We quit the whole transplants stuff for years, the techniques and the equipments we…

Post by nativeit » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:46 AM UTC

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America is becoming a silly place. Lumberjack appointed as a head of NASA for his loyalty.

He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Post by testing22321 » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC

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> Literally every other nation is trying to catch up to Space-X and is nowhere close. An American company, based in American, primarily staffed by American engineers The whole point of this article, and the NASA admin steps to open up the contract and all of Berger’s recent reporting is that it’s almost a certainty China will beat the US back to the moon.

It is already too bad that the US's plan to get to the moon was so flawed that it has been delayed again and again and money was wasted. Let's imagine that China puts people on the moon next year in a method similar to the way the US did it in 1969 (but probably better in some ways). They still are mostly doing something that has been done before by the USA. In that same year, the USA will probably continue to launch…