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NASA freezes Starliner missions

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269 points rntn | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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elintknower ◴[17 Oct 24 21:07 UTC] No.41873803[source]▶
That took long enough. Insane that the gov was entirely silent after this week's starship launch as well...

Even though I'm not an elon fan, pretending to not notice for political reasons (not to mention the insane halving of launches at Vandenberg AFB) is completely insane and damaging to our country.

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bufferoverflow ◴[20 Oct 24 05:43 UTC] No.41893153[source]▶
Our current administration is damaging to the country. This anti-Musk insanity started pretty early when Biden invited all EV companies to the EV summit, except Tesla. Which, at that time produced more EVs combined than the rest.

And now people are wondering why Musk doesn't like current administration. What a mystery.

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treflop ◴[20 Oct 24 06:10 UTC] No.41893270[source]▶
This is some conspiracy BS.

Why would Tesla have been invited to a summit that was primarily centered around United Auto Workers? Tesla is non-union. “EV” was only a pretext.

The summit didn’t invite any non-US carmakers, who also make EVs. It was an event about UAW. Everyone invited was UAW.

The administration even said as much: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/05/white-house-answers-why...

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1. travisporter ◴[20 Oct 24 13:27 UTC] No.41895240[source]▶
Tesla still gets tax credits and NEVI funds.

One side accuses govt of favoritism and corruption and are trying hard to make that true. The truth is most people try to do the right thing.