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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: 0.228s | source
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loourr ◴[21 Oct 25 13:35 UTC] No.45655638[source]▶
Artemis is a joke. You can tell this is politically motivated by their stance on SLS. If they were serious they would give Spacex the SLS contract for being years and years behind schedule.
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jordanb ◴[21 Oct 25 13:54 UTC] No.45655844[source]▶
Is starship on schedule?
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inglor_cz ◴[21 Oct 25 19:09 UTC] No.45660235[source]▶
I have never seen even a software project on schedule, including all of mine and everything I encountered in the academia.

Building new things is genuinely hard.

But I have seen some serious, albeit delayed, successes.

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1. IAmBroom ◴[21 Oct 25 19:36 UTC] No.45660607[source]▶
On budget is also rare.

Humans are relentlessly overoptimistic in their planning, and that's likely because if we weren't we often wouldn't even start... plus, the future is really, really hard to predict.