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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: 0.578s | source
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dzonga[dead post] ◴[21 Oct 25 13:43 UTC] No.45655728[source]▶
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1. stetrain ◴[21 Oct 25 13:47 UTC] No.45655758[source]▶
Back then you'd get two legs of the Correct - Fast - Cheap triangle. It just required shoveling boatloads of money at the defense contractors.

Now you can give Boeing twice as much money as SpaceX and they still fail to deliver a working product in twice the time.

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2. HPsquared ◴[21 Oct 25 13:56 UTC] No.45655870[source]▶
Maybe you can score contractors on "legs out of three".
3. slowmovintarget ◴[21 Oct 25 14:13 UTC] No.45656072[source]▶
That's because Boeing followed the leadership failure curve when McDonnell-Douglas took them over: Engineer -> Accountant (they are here) -> Lawyer.