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NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission

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404 points voxleone | 9 comments | 21 Oct 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.982s | source | bottom
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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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1. squigz ◴[21 Oct 25 20:09 UTC] No.45661025[source]▶
Didn't JFK say something about going to the moon by the end of the decade?
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2. nkrisc ◴[21 Oct 25 20:14 UTC] No.45661085[source]▶
Yes, and three astronauts died.
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3. squigz ◴[21 Oct 25 20:17 UTC] No.45661116[source]▶
Sure, I just don't think people reacted the way GP did when JFK said it.
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4. verdverm ◴[21 Oct 25 20:33 UTC] No.45661320{3}[source]▶
The current admin is different, the times are different, the people are largely different, thus the interpretations and reactions are different
5. ks2048 ◴[21 Oct 25 22:52 UTC] No.45662745[source]▶
JFK: "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."

RFK Jr: "Measles ain't that bad, try this potion my friend came up with."

6. Dylan16807 ◴[22 Oct 25 00:44 UTC] No.45663670[source]▶
Deaths are always terrible. But unless we have a reason to only care about astronauts specifically, once we zoom out to the entire massive endeavor and how much everyone sacrifices for any big project, three particular deaths aren't a big factor and don't do much to say if we went too fast or too slow.
7. daemonologist ◴[22 Oct 25 02:10 UTC] No.45664185[source]▶
Yes, but the program was started under his predecessor Eisenhower (a Republican) and "the end of the decade" was beyond the end of a hypothetical second term. The timeline was arbitrary and political - probably set primarily to beat the Soviets - but not self-serving.
8. userbinator ◴[22 Oct 25 02:16 UTC] No.45664210[source]▶
No risk, no gain.
9. UltraSane ◴[23 Oct 25 02:52 UTC] No.45677690[source]▶
a pure oxygen atmosphere was always a stupid idea.