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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: 0s | 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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oceanplexian ◴[21 Oct 25 19:37 UTC] No.45660629[source]▶
JFK proposed we go to the Moon in 1962. We did it in 1969, 7 years later.
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mikkupikku ◴[21 Oct 25 20:02 UTC] No.45660956[source]▶
They also killed three astronauts in the process and had to stop the program and reevaluate their whole approach to safety.

The risk of people dying is sometimes an acceptable risk. We accept it every time a firefighter goes into a burning building. Is a national vanity project like Moon missions worth the risk? Maybe then, when it was novel and inspirational, but now, when it's a retro throwback and the only reason we're doing it is to avoid losing face to the communist Chinese?

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1. fragmede ◴[21 Oct 25 20:47 UTC] No.45661496{4}[source]▶
They knew the risks and chose to do it in the face of that. People take insane risks for the fun of it. Seen any of the RedBull stunts on YouTube lately? Humans with jet packs flying alongside jetliners!