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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 4 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 19:15 UTC] No.45660320[source]▶
"The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator.

A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.

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WalterBright ◴[21 Oct 25 19:23 UTC] No.45660416[source]▶
Having a deadline is how things get done. With no deadline, nothing gets accomplished.
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1. dragontamer ◴[21 Oct 25 19:32 UTC] No.45660550[source]▶
The Moon directive was set by Donald Trump in 2017.

This is just the same deadline being pushed another year because of failures. Deadlines that get constantly pushed aren't deadlines at all.

As I recall, SpaceX and Artemis project was supposed to be Moon by 2024. At least originally. But then SpaceX blew up all the rockets (successfully testing them or something) and now we've wasted damn near a decade.

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2. jaapbadlands ◴[21 Oct 25 19:44 UTC] No.45660716[source]▶
Testing rockets that fail is still progress. Deadlines that get pushed isn't an argument against deadlines.
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3. b00ty4breakfast ◴[21 Oct 25 19:55 UTC] No.45660875[source]▶
Any project even a quarter as complex as a manned lunar mission going to run into problems and failures and unforeseen complications (just ask anyone who's ever done any home renovation). Things go over budget, deadlines are missed, stuff doesn't work out the way you'd envisioned. This isn't always somebody's fault or the result of poor planning (though they can be).

Yeah, we've been there already, but it's been many decades and we haven't exactly kept all the tech and procedures up to date in the intervening years. And that first go-round itself missed it's intended deadline by about 7-8 years.

4. dragontamer ◴[22 Oct 25 01:28 UTC] No.45663945[source]▶
Deadlines that get pushed is an argument against SpaceX. How many deadlines do we miss before we realize there is no actual plan to get to the moon?