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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: 0.271s | source
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radu_floricica ◴[21 Oct 25 13:53 UTC] No.45655837[source]▶
I'm not really sure if keeping a strict schedule has any real relevance here, outside maybe PR and politics. Starships will drop the cost to other bodies in the same way Falcon dropped the cost to orbit. Why would anyone want to invest in a technology and a project that will be obsolete by the time it's implemented?
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saubeidl ◴[21 Oct 25 14:05 UTC] No.45655981[source]▶
That is assuming Starship succeeds. Elon's track record hasn't exactly been stellar as of late.
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1. matheusmoreira ◴[21 Oct 25 19:27 UTC] No.45660470[source]▶
Musk got SpaceX to build a reusable rocket booster. It launches spacecraft and then flies back to Earth in a controlled manner, landing safely without blowing itself up as well as everything else around it.

That alone overshadows everything NASA has done since the moon landing.