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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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reactordev ◴[21 Oct 25 13:21 UTC] No.45655443[source]▶
Posture, no one can compete, not even NASA.
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altcognito ◴[21 Oct 25 13:32 UTC] No.45655583[source]▶
"Not even" only applies to those that haven't followed the events of the past decade.

1. USA is no longer sponsoring groundbreaking research 2. USA had already begun outsourcing research to companies that are not grounded in long term employment of researchers.

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inglor_cz ◴[21 Oct 25 13:54 UTC] No.45655841[source]▶
In general, yes, but in this specific instance, groundbreaking research or its lack isn't the core of the problem.

This is mostly about the new human-rated lander, which is an engineering problem. Notably, the US never had a reasonably safe spaceship, although Dragon may yet prove good. Both Apollos and Space Shuttles, developed under NASA, were pretty dangerous to their crews.

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1. altcognito ◴[21 Oct 25 14:57 UTC] No.45656635{3}[source]▶
I debated exactly that before posting, I appreciate your comment.

I do think there are some novel challenges left for the Artemis project however that do require a lot of research and development before they are put before the boring engineering happens.