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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[21 Oct 25 13:15 UTC] No.45655366[source]▶
About damn time!
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philipwhiuk ◴[21 Oct 25 13:26 UTC] No.45655500[source]▶
Who do you think is capable of competing, given that they didn't win the bid the first time round?
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1. bombcar ◴[21 Oct 25 13:34 UTC] No.45655625[source]▶
I don't really care, give Carmack ten billion dollars and at least it'll run DooM.
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2. philipwhiuk ◴[21 Oct 25 14:09 UTC] No.45656025[source]▶
Armadillo Aerospace did a mediocre job at best with its funding.
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3. peterfirefly ◴[21 Oct 25 21:29 UTC] No.45661961[source]▶
I think it did amazingly well with its shoestring funding.

They didn't handle the scale up in vehicle size well. They didn't have a guy who really understood electronics. I'd say those were the biggest problems. They did have an amazing metal worker (and I don't think they ever understood how important that was) and an amazing programmer.