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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: 0.335s | 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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raverbashing ◴[21 Oct 25 13:28 UTC] No.45655530[source]▶
Yeah who is going to deliver faster and more reliable than SpaceX? Boeing? LM?

Doubt

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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[21 Oct 25 13:58 UTC] No.45655892[source]▶
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. Have they managed to get starship to orbit yet?
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Culonavirus ◴[21 Oct 25 14:30 UTC] No.45656301[source]▶
Several times (if we keep disingenuous "wheeeel akchually" technical gotchas out of this). The fact that they keep safety in mind is a good thing. Any starship that got to space could have easily reached orbit, but it didn't because spacex cares more about NOT uncontrollably deorbiting a giant hunk of steel than impressing a "redditor" who doesn't understand how orbital mechanics work.
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1. m4rtink ◴[21 Oct 25 19:30 UTC] No.45660533[source]▶
For comparison other organizations don't have an issue with leaving 20 ton rocket stages in orbit, leading to uncontrolled reenetry. :)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a32451633/china-long-...

That's 20 tons of mostly aluminium - 100+ ton stainless steel Starship would be potentially much more dangerous, so it is good SpaceX cares. :)