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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: 0.001s | 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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bahmboo ◴[21 Oct 25 19:26 UTC] No.45660462[source]▶
This is a political deadline with no grounding in reality.
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1. colechristensen ◴[21 Oct 25 19:42 UTC] No.45660678[source]▶
The entire Apollo program was a political stunt to upstage the USSR.
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2. NoMoreNicksLeft ◴[21 Oct 25 20:27 UTC] No.45661243[source]▶
It was a semi-covert program to be able to get to the USSR in 25 minutes with 150ktons of carryon luggage.
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3. jjk166 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:11 UTC] No.45661761[source]▶
A political stunt for America to upstage the USSR, not to stroke the ego of a particular American.
4. dboreham ◴[22 Oct 25 03:16 UTC] No.45664572[source]▶
That was Mercury. All the ICBM systems predate Apollo.