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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: 0.23s | 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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delichon ◴[21 Oct 25 14:05 UTC] No.45655977[source]▶
> Not sure if you're being sarcastic. Have they managed to get to orbit anything bigger than a banana?

Yes, about 4,000 metric tons. My IP packets are traveling through part of it now.

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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[21 Oct 25 14:25 UTC] No.45656240[source]▶
On starship?
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delichon ◴[21 Oct 25 14:42 UTC] No.45656446[source]▶
You said "they". They are SpaceX. Their expertise is transferable to Starship.
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[21 Oct 25 15:17 UTC] No.45656899[source]▶
Clearly not, because they've launched about 10 Starships and have failed to achieve orbit.
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