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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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teekert ◴[21 Oct 25 19:37 UTC] No.45660624[source]▶
Why does this sounds so... Entitled? NASA regresses so far that they are now unable to do anything by themselves... Now suddenly there is a new moon race and they start pointing to a public company that is not sticking to a schedule. A company that does some impressive things, and has helped them out (probably not out of the goodness of their hearts, but hey), and is doing things they could not.

I would be an adult about it and respond reasonable, perhaps even ask NASA for help, publicly. I'm afraid Elon is about to give them the finger and drive around on the moon by himself, two fingers pointing at NASA head quarters. I would smile about that a bit, I admit.

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1. phkahler ◴[21 Oct 25 19:54 UTC] No.45660849[source]▶
>> I'm afraid Elon is about to give them the finger and drive around on the moon by himself, two fingers pointing at NASA head quarters.

I don't think Elon cares much about going to the moon. It would probably delay the Mars mission to devote resources to a moon mission.

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2. boringg ◴[21 Oct 25 19:56 UTC] No.45660888[source]▶
Unless he gets a lucrative mining contract
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